INDIGNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indignity mean? 

• INDIGNITY (noun)
  The noun INDIGNITY has 1 sense:

1. an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

  Familiarity information: INDIGNITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIGNITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An affront to one's dignity or self-esteem

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("indignity" is a kind of...):

affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)

 Context examples 

Nothing remained but to stand still and accept the indignity.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I cannot imagine, said Mrs. Elton, (feeling the indignity as a wife ought to do,) I cannot imagine how he could do such a thing by you, of all people in the world!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Who would submit to the indignity of being approved by such a woman as Lady Middleton and Mrs. Jennings, that could command the indifference of any body else?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then, sire, I was bidden to ask you from my master whether you would consent if Sir John Chandos, upon hearing my master's name, should assure you that he was indeed a man with whom you might yourself cross swords without indignity.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had also observed how modest I was in my nature, how nicely I regarded my honour, and what an indignity I should conceive it, to be exposed for money as a public spectacle, to the meanest of the people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Catherine's colour rose at the sight of it; and the indignity with which she was treated, striking at that instant on her mind with peculiar force, made her for a short time sensible only of resentment.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I shall not be able to side with you openly, and, no matter what indignities may be put upon me, you are to remain likewise silent.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings!

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)