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
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The first known use of undignified was in 1716
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