indignity

Example Sentences

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Savers may be spared the indignity of seeing the returns on their cash dwindle to near nothing - although institutions sometimes don't need an excuse to reduce savings rates.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

She said John O'Sullivan had been responsible for the indignity and degradation his father endured and he had caused misery for the family.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

“Goodbye June” mulls over the beauty of life and the indignity of death, but never fully engages with either facet of our relatively short existence.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

After everything endured by victims of the Eaton and Palisades fires, they didn’t need yet another indignity, another gut punch, another reason to throw their heads back and scream.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2025

The wages Winn-Dixie is offering—$6 and a couple of dimes to start with—are not enough, I decide, to compensate for this indignity.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich