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Recent Examples of undignified
The man who has played an oversized role in pushing a president who campaigned against costly foreign wars and chaotic regime changes to do both was brought back down to an undignified size.
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
In pop culture, the representation of gay men has largely been limited to a narrow list of tragic themes and undignified caricatures, Duquette said.
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Ian Kerner 19 Hr Ago,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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
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Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
In pop culture, the representation of gay men has largely been limited to a narrow list of tragic themes and undignified caricatures, Duquette said.
—
Ian Kerner 19 Hr Ago,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for undignified
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undignified
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The decision followed the Columbia Association's ethics panel concluding that Greenberg, Emery, and Avery filed a frivolous ethics complaint.
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Her attorneys argued that the fee award would help to deter frivolous and retaliatory suits against accusers in the future.
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Margaret, what the president said is just goofy word salad.
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As Buffy’s bafoonish brother, Dave Sheridan played an unlikely killer (though Doofy GIlmore ends up being far less goofy than originally expected).
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Every player with a pulse had six suitors throwing silly money around.
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Some scenes in the movie are light and silly, including those pairing Maddie with a lesbian friend, played by Kate Berlant, who clearly loves her.
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Ureña, a 22-year-old right-hander who has emerged as another potential ace, speaks of Soriano with a giddy amusement mixed with a solemn respect for how the starter has survived in the big leagues.
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For now, the stock market and the credit market are telling slightly different stories about the same companies, one giddy and one wary.
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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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Forget about the ill-behaved, performative fans hoping to go viral on TikTok for unseemly behavior.
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While the expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies at the end of 2025 made insurance more expensive for millions of consumers, the HHS assistant secretary for planning and evaluation report cited efforts to crack down on improper signups.
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The agency is also asking visitors to the World Cup game or Fan Fest to report any unsafe or improper drone use to the FBI tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI.
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Morris pleaded guilty in October last year in Oklahoma to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child.
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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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“Undignified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undignified. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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