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Recent Examples of undignified
Being unable to reliably feed your family healthy and nutritious foods in a way that aligns with your values can feel undignified.
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Senbagam Virudachalam,
The Conversation,
25 Nov. 2025
Also, telling the whole story is undignified.
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Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
One gets the sense of a male playwright feeling uncomfortable about the possibility of making a female character look undignified — but Ibsen’s own satire gets us past that.
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Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 Sep. 2025
The discovery requires the Army Corps to follow a process spelled out in federal law on consulting with tribes and repatriating human remains and artifacts to them as they are discovered — requirements enacted after generations of grave-robbing, exploitation and undignified treatment of such finds.
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Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Senbagam Virudachalam,
The Conversation,
25 Nov. 2025
Also, telling the whole story is undignified.
—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
One gets the sense of a male playwright feeling uncomfortable about the possibility of making a female character look undignified — but Ibsen’s own satire gets us past that.
—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 Sep. 2025
The discovery requires the Army Corps to follow a process spelled out in federal law on consulting with tribes and repatriating human remains and artifacts to them as they are discovered — requirements enacted after generations of grave-robbing, exploitation and undignified treatment of such finds.
—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undignified
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Are peaches now the perfect example of how pop culture, politics, and perfume merge into something that feels frivolous at first but reveals more about our cultural mindset and mood beyond the initial spritz?
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Fong described it as an affordability measure, saying frivolous lawsuits are driving up fares for riders.
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Alongside Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and his best friend, Shaggy Rogers, Scooby spent decades unmasking supposedly supernatural villains while winning over generations of fans with his goofy charm, insatiable appetite and signature catchphrases.
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All well and good—even if the log-line here may remind some of you of this goofy scene from the Sex and the City movie.
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When it’s done well, the audience doesn’t realize that’s what’s happening; this story is super-silly and the characters actually just got a little bit closer.
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The whole thing was undeniably silly.
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And then there are the uptempo perennials that made Highland, California the giddiest place on earth.
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Alpha Camp − Nikki Hru, Maddy Jones, Leiya Pillitteri − had seemed giddy with confidence before the flaming arrow competition.
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Forget about the ill-behaved, performative fans hoping to go viral on TikTok for unseemly behavior.
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But her mother, who found it unseemly for a little girl to be swinging such a thing about, chopped it off one night while my mother was asleep.
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Experts say a lack of access to information and improper staff training are major barriers for blind travelers.
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Although Ashley had alleged things like malice, ill-will and improper motives by Adam, that still fell short of proving that Adam knew that his statements were false.
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Varley, a teacher, was also found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm; four counts of cruelty to a person under 16; ten counts of taking indecent images of a child; two counts of possessing indecent images of a child; and one count of distributing an indecent image of a child.
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Étienne, however, never forgets his first tussle in the woods with Bartosz (Julian Swiezewski), a Polish trucker who saves his lover’s skin when the cops show up to arrest them and other men for indecent behavior.
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“Undignified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undignified. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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