Crossword clues for indignity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indignity \In*dig"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Indignities. [L. indignitas: cf. F. indignit['e]. See Indign.] Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.
How might a prince of my great hopes forget
So great indignities you laid upon me?
--Shak.
A person of so great place and worth constrained to
endure so foul indignities.
--Hooker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "unworthiness," also "unworthy treatment; act intended to expose someone to contempt," from Latin indignitatem (nominative indignitas) "unworthiness, meanness, baseness," also "unworthy conduct, an outrage," noun of quality from indignus "unworthy" (see indignation). Related: Indignities.
Wiktionary
n. 1 degradation, debasement or humiliation 2 an affront to one's dignity or pride
WordNet
n. an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
Usage examples of "indignity".
Long a man of decided temperament, Adams was as determined as he had ever been to maintain the policy of neutrality established by Washington, while refusing to submit to any indignities or to sacrifice American honor--he was determined, in essence, to fulfill his own inaugural promises.
We have already judged him, Arete, Nor are we ignorant how noble minds Suffer too much through those indignities Which times and vicious persons cast on them.
He built all around a little wooden baldaquin or shrine, and presently put devout persons to watch the place so that no indignity might be done.
The Princess Fou-tan made no reply as, surrounded by the soldiers of Bharata Rahon, she left the audience chamber and returned to her own apartment, where a new surprise and indignity awaited her.
Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
It endured the indignity of being leashed with the air of a prisoner enduring interrogation from the Deutsche or some equally fierce Big Uglies.
I knew that if I died Dejah Thoris, too, would find a way to die before they could heap further tortures or indignities upon her.
Of the great heroes of the forties, only the stalwarts at NationalSuperman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a few of their cohortssoldiered on with any regularity or commercial clout, and even they had been forced to suffer the indignity of seeing their wartime sales cut in half or more, of receiving second billing in titles where formerly they headlined, or of having forced upon them by increasingly desperate writers various attention-getting novelties and gimmicks, from fifteen different shades and flavors of Kryptonite to Bat-Hounds, Bat-Monkeys, and a magical-powered little elf-eared nudnick known as the Bat-Mite.
When I became myself again, I was in a reeducation camp, under constant surveillance and unable to use the portal through which so many of my brother officers had escaped the indignity of surrender and the humiliations of.
The Cagots sought relief from persecution through a request to Pope Leo X in 1514, which was granted in principle, but the restrictions and indignities continued to the end of the nineteenth century, when they ceased to exist as a distinct race.
Danna, being princesses, were carried along the riverside paths in sedan chairs, each borne on the shoulders of two strong men, and were thus spared the indignity and discomfort of walking, or lolling in the coracles where bilge water and sunlight would have soiled and freckled them.
Women were paraded as Danaides and Dircae and put to death after they had suffered horrible and cruel indignities.
However, Dobele must give Shmuel twenty-five rubles for making him suffer indignities.
Not satisfied with this indignity, the peppery little agent scurried across the room and stood over Shelyid.
On this day the restored exiles-men like Appius Claudius Pulcher, Metellus Pius, Varro Lucullus and Marcus Crassus-marched not as senators of Rome, but as restored exiles, though Sulla considerately spared them the indignity of having to don the Cap of Liberty, normally the headgear of freedmen.