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# indignity

«indignity» in Mova's school dictionary: **Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (indignity, indignities)

### meaning for a pupil

Treatment that makes a person feel shamed or lowered in front of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indignity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a humiliating treatment that a hero or villain must suffer in a tale

### examples

- It was an indignity to be laughed at in front of everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indignity/#x1)
- The prince wanted to save himself from that indignity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indignity/#x2)
- Being carried off like a sack was a terrible indignity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indignity/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indignity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indignity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.