What is "undignified"

Usage examples of "undignified".

He has nothing against anatomizing, but he feels I tend to become undignified about the matter.

President Johnson, however, behaved as an ordinary political speaker in a heated canvass, receiving interruptions from the crowd, answering insolent remarks with undignified repartee, and lowering at every step of his progress the dignity which properly appertains to the great office.

But while a long special training, a high tradition and the possibility of reward and distinction, enable the medical student to face many tasks that are at once undignified and physically repulsive, the people from whom we get our anthropological information are rarely men of more than average intelligence, and of no mental training at all.

Others in the square shouted out obscenities from behind darkened windows like a hostile audience from behind the footlights, even threatening to bring the police, and he screamed back at them, calling them all a lot of bloody assassins and murderers, shrieking and squawking in an altogether undignified manner unfortunately, overtaken momentarily by a fit of blind fear and rage.

Hobo was a clownish Doberman whose uncropped ears hung out from his head, giving him an off- balance, undignified appearance.

No one else in the world save the whole skein of his blood relations had this undignified effect upon him.

I smiled back feebly, grateful that the streets were fairly empty and no human could see me in this undignified pose.

Instead, I did a sort of undignified shuffling waddle towards the open doorway.

Before I had a chance to protest, the long handle of the rake found my rump and I was suddenly pushed forward in a most painful and undignified way.

And she blushed hotly at being betrayed into a personality which seemed to her undignified, and, what was worse, unrefined.

Maybe it was losing my underwear, but the ass-in-air position was a little too undignified for me.

Suddenly the planet was rushing up to meet him and he landed with an undignified, one-legged, arm-swirling skid which ended when he pitched sideways into a clump of tobacco plants.

Peace, still in an undignified squatting position, zooming towards him through the murk.

She threw Barbie away, skittering her across the sand on her can in an undignified tangle.

With a few undignified gestures he is able to thread it up his leg, beneath his breeches.