undignified

adjective

un·dig·ni·fied | \ ˌən-ˈdig-nə-ˌfīd

Definition of undignified

: not dignified : lacking in dignity or injurious to dignity undignified behavior She did not exactly fall, but she staggered and reeled across the room in a very undignified fashion … —Lucy Maud Montgomery … she could not get over the idea that to earn her living was somewhat undignified … —Somerset Maugham

Examples of undignified in a Sentence

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Today a video surfaced of an undignified event in which a Puerto Rican woman was brutally harassed by a bigot while an officer did not interfere. — Natalie Dreier, ajc, "Man harasses woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt," 11 July 2018 Today a video surfaced of an undignified event in which a Puerto Rican woman was brutally harassed by a bigot while an officer did not interfere. — Natalie Dreier, ajc, "Man harasses woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt," 11 July 2018 Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló, posted a string of tweets Monday night calling the video ‘‘an undignified event in which a Puerto Rican woman was brutally harassed by a bigot while an officer did not interfere. — Samantha Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, "Officer resigns after video shows he watched as woman was harassed for wearing Puerto Rico shirt," 12 July 2018 Today a video surfaced of an undignified event in which a Puerto Rican woman was brutally harassed by a bigot while an officer did not interfere. — Natalie Dreier, ajc, "Man harasses woman wearing Puerto Rico flag shirt," 11 July 2018 Today a video surfaced of an undignified event in which a Puerto Rican woman was brutally harassed by a bigot while an officer did not interfere. — Matthew Diebel, USA TODAY, "Caught on video: Man harangues woman in park for wearing Puerto Rico shirt; police officer does little to help," 10 July 2018 Steven Colbert and Anderson Cooper may have made a bad joke or acted a bit undignified. — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, "Anderson Cooper's Eye-Roll Isn't Sexist," 12 May 2017 Inside, the drones themselves were lined up in an undignified row, their tails in the air and their bellies exposed. — Rachel Becker, The Verge, "I launched a blood-delivering drone," 13 Apr. 2018 In a 2008 interview with The New York Times, he was asked about the complaint that caricatures of presidents and presidential candidates were undignified. — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, "Robert Grossman, Illustrator With a Brash Touch, Dies at 78," 19 Mar. 2018

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