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# undignified

«undignified» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making you look silly or embarrassed; not calm, proper or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (undignified)

### meaning for a pupil

Making you look silly or embarrassed; not calm, proper or serious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A feelings word in stories: falling in a puddle or crawling through a hedge is undignified. Toad in The Wind in the Willows hates undignified moments, like being thrown into the canal by the barge-woman. Alice feels undignified when she grows and shrinks.

### examples

- Slipping on the ice was very undignified. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x1)
- Toad was thrown into the water in a most undignified way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x2)
- The cat made an undignified leap and missed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x3)
- It's undignified to sulk in public. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x4)
- The judge's wig fell off in an undignified moment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x5)
- He climbed out in an undignified scramble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x6)
- She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/undignified/#x7)

### note

Adjective; opposite «dignified»; noun «dignity». Spelling: un-dig-ni-fied.

### Trees and pragmatics

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