indignity
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The Angels’ ultimate indignity is its own hometown newspaper doesn’t regard it highly enough to staff its games with a full-time writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Dog poo bags are not the only indignity the famous defensive frontier has to endure.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
You can call that depressing, or an indignity, or a simple fact.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
In once again going 3-0 down after three matches, they are left to battle against the indignity of a 5-0 clean sweep.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
Don’t you remember the singles’ bars, the indignity of high school blind dates?
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The indignities apparently did not stop at the club.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Many of us were the Success Daughters who had grown up hearing that we could be anything we wanted, only to encounter barriers and indignities we hadn’t been told existed.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Her acting is grounded in the particulars of an aging body and the indignities and frustrations of daily living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Cubicle dwellers at a Texas software company endure everyday corporate indignities, including paper jams and smug bosses asking if they got the memo about cover sheets for the TPS reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
Just recalling the indignities he had met as a black man seemed to expose some raw nerve in this highly educated, dignified official.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing indignity
Things Fall Apart
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"My Wonder Horse," Vocabulary from the short story
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 14–18
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