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Recent Examples of undignified
Last weekend’s loss to the Tennessee Titans was comically undignified, but at least the other two came against good teams (San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks).
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Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 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
But having to hold on to the subway wall for fear of getting pushed onto the tracks by a crazy person is undignified too.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 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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Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 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
But having to hold on to the subway wall for fear of getting pushed onto the tracks by a crazy person is undignified too.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 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
Adjective
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Denver, the state of Colorado, and James Comey are most likely incurring a great deal of expense in defending these frivolous actions.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
7 May 2026
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Democrats see it as a frivolous investigation that lays the groundwork for disputes during the midterms and sows doubts about the integrity of the state’s electoral process.—
Caleb Groves,
AJC.com,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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But the goofier parts of Over Your Dead Body offer some hope for the future.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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There’s a steadiness to Tung/Wonder Woman that stands out for its quiet authority in a frequently goofy landscape peppered with poisonous robes and finger-eating minions.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Otherwise, those bobbleheads will look a little silly.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
8 May 2026
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If that strikes you as twee or downright silly, Olivia Newman‘s touchy-feely weepie is not on your wavelength.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Coming off an evening that included giddy meetings with Robert De Niro and Andy Serkis, and a morning spent on Good Morning America, Brammall nevertheless appears chipper without the aid of any caffeine during our sit-down.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
30 Apr. 2026
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Eurodance with the bass-heavy Swedish genre EPA-dunk and 3Cha—the giddy electronic dance music from Thaiboy’s home region of Isaan in Thailand—to form a new kind of globalist hyperpop.—
Harry Thorfinn-George,
Pitchfork,
27 Apr. 2026
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Using family events to network is unseemly, if all too common.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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There was also an unseemly whiff of insider partisan horse-trading here—two Democrats for two Republicans—in a razor-close chamber.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi reinstated a similar policy in 2025 banning improper third party settlements.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
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The restaurant was closed due to critical violations including improper food holding temperatures and storage techniques, lack of hand hygiene and overall poor cleanliness, city officials said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 May 2026
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The post garnered nearly 200 comments, mostly calling the meme vulgar and indecent.—
Kaitlin McCallum,
Hartford Courant,
4 May 2026
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Pamela Martin, 44, and her boyfriend Christopher O’Kane, 41, both pleaded guilty in March to three counts of making an indecent image of a child, two counts of distributing an indecent image of a child, possession of an extreme pornographic image and publishing an obscene article.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Undignified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undignified. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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