0 something that causes a loss of respect for someone or for yourself: --
Clint suffered the indignity of being called "Puppy" in front of his girlfriend.
They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.
Here we find the needs and resources test, the means test, all the indignities which will have to be suffered by part of our population.
Whether by euthanasia or natural means, death which ended long-term suffering was legitimated, by all who spoke of it, as a ' merciful release ' - an end to pain and indignity.
It would have been callous and indifferent to not have inquired about the patient's level of comfort, given the case description of the patient's "unbearable" pain and indignities.
These problems do not arise when moral responsibility for harm to others is coupled with epistemic responsibility for responding to indignities that should fall short of harm.
Indignity, an acute concern to family and friends, may be quite invisible to the sufferer.
May we all reclaim ourselves as elegantly from the indignities of age and accident.
Kamalakanta's irony, despite its sense of indignity ineradicably mixed with the historical present, had not lost its touch entirely with laughter in the ordinary sense.
Invasive and futile treatment with multiple injections, tubes, catheters can add further indignity in the dying phase, when the elderly may only want to pass away peacefully.
