Example sentences for: undignified

How can you use “undignified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It was, one realized, a scene of gravity, even of mourning: Here were today's analysts, at a time when psychoanalysis seems to be sputtering to an undignified end, done in by managed health care, psychopharmacology, and the intellectual vindication of behavioral psychologists by modern trends in genetics.

  • Opera diva Jessye Norman lost her bid to sue for libel over a "vulgar and undignified" quip about her size.

  • But if a working-poor American sees food stamps as an undignified handout, that judgment, too, deserves respect.

  • But Steve Roberts ( Late Edition ) says Gore was "undignified" and his hectoring of Bradley was "beneath him," while Bill Kristol said Gore looked "like an elementary school teacher" in front of the podium.

  • Random House has come up touting its treatment of entries like gal and girl , as in Gal Friday, I'll get my girl (`secretary') to type up this letter right away . The treatment is good and it might be unique among the desk/college dictionaries--I don't waste my time checking such trivia--but it is a shame to see publishers relying on such undignified approaches.


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