INDIGNITIES Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

indignities

noun

plural of indignity

as in insults

an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings minor indignities such as intentionally mispronouncing a person's name

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Recent Examples of indignities The family members either submitted to the indignities—the false testimony, the obscene bullet fees—or were asked for bribes as high as $7,000 to avoid consigning their relatives to mass graves. —

Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026 The remedy is finding laughter amongst the indignities. —

Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026 Sam later apologizes for all the indignities the Muppets have made the great artist suffer, but Nureyev won’t hear it. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 June 2026 Where would a collapse in the Finals from coming home up 2-0 to ultimately squander the series rank in the pantheon of Knicks’ indignities? —

Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 11 June 2026 What Alejo can do is blunt the effect of all these indignities and do the heavy lifting to make someone’s life a little easier. —

Megan Greenwell, Bloomberg, 9 June 2026 Freedom, for most people, meant a stable existence free of poverty and its indignities. —

Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026 The next day, we are met with twin indignities, setting up for an après-ski party and the arrival of Sabrina in what might be her dumbest outfit yet. —

Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 May 2026 Streep’s second go-round, by contrast, unfolds as a series of micro-indignities—a plunge from her Olympian perch, one stumble at a time. —

Justin Chang, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2026

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In recent weeks, Avila Chevalier has been under a microscope for her past tweets, including posts calling for defunding the police and abolishing the border, alongside harsh insults of big-name Democrats such as former Vice President Kamala Harris.

— Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 June 2026
Michael Lind, the writer and New America co-founder, argues in Commonplace, the magazine of Oren Cass’s American Compass, that a decent wage and a safety net should be enough, and that handing workers a stake in capital insults the dignity of their labor.

— Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026