Undignified
[ʌn'dɪgnɪfaɪd] or [ʌn'dɪgnə'faɪd]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Common, low, grovelling, base, vile, mean, without dignity.
Editor: Rena
Definition
adj. not dignified not consistent with dignity.—v.t. Undig′nify to make undignified.
Typist: Montague
Examples
- Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, Because you are going away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Among other things opportunity had of late years been denied her of learning to be undignified, for she lived lonely. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He felt she was undignified, she put a sort of vulgarity over the esotericism which gave man his last distinction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If we wait, if we baulk the issue, we do but hang about the gates in undignified uneasiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We both bounced into the parlour in a highly abrupt and undignified manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In his own tim e he was rather reproached for what was c onsidered an undignified and sordid familiarity with observed facts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Montague