How to Use indignity in a Sentence

indignity

noun
  • The indignity of it all was too much to bear.
  • He suffered the indignity of being forced to leave the courtroom.
  • He remembers all the indignities he had to suffer in the early years of his career.
  • We must endure the indignities of growing old.
  • Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all — just be busy that day.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t act out, don’t huff and puff over the indignity of it all – just, be busy that day.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Alfred deals with a lot of indignities in these first few episodes.
    — Joshua Rivera, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
  • To add to the indignity, police wouldn't even let the group march.
    — Fox News, 3 June 2018
  • Trump was spared the indignity of being handcuffed, perp walked or placed in a cell.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But that was just the beginning of the indignity for the beloved mall.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • That approach spares the indignity of putting a human through all that pain.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Feb. 2025
  • There’s an indignity that comes from not being able to be yourself.
    — Diya Chacko, Oc Register, 11 Mar. 2026
  • That is all that is left for the Avs now, showing enough pride to avoid the indignity of a sweep.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 May 2026
  • Mike really does have to bear the indignity of riding in the trunk.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022
  • Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The customs have evolved, but the sacrifices and indignities have been there all along.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Soufra shows how the stagnation of life that a refugee must endure is the greatest indignity of all.
    — Padma Lakshmi, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
  • On the Clock does not shy away from the particular indignities of this type of job.
    — Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The final indignity lies in the fact that the women were all but forgotten.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Among these many indignities of age, however, one of the worst is the potential loss of sight.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The biggest indignity of all, though?
    — Caroline Framke, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In the show’s tapestry of human indignity and grievance, his saga is just one thread among many.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Hani asked about his child, and the others enduring the mounting indignities of the war.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The final indignity for Minnesota came in the stands, not on the field.
    — Ben Shpigel, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
  • And, in the final indignity, Williams threw down a vicious dunk off a Young lob.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Though the indignity ran deep, our ancestors refused to bow.
    — John E. Jackson Sr, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • So one of them keeps a tongue as an act of reverence and kindness to the body that is still going to go through a lot of indignities.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
  • As for the misspelling of his name, Ibrahimovic isn’t the first to suffer that indignity.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
  • On this night, that was just one of the many indignities heaped upon the Dodgers, who need to have their memories erased.
    — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Even now, his mind is full of thoughts of going back to the gulf — anything to avoid the indignity of returning home with nothing.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020

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