- indignity (of something/of doing something)
a situation that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed because you are not treated with respect; an act that causes these feelings 侮辱；轻蔑；侮辱性的行为 The chairman suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the meeting. 主席蒙受了被拒于会议之外的侮辱。 🔊🔊 the daily indignities of imprisonment 身陷囹圄每日所遭受的侮辱
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French indignité or Latin indignitas, from indignari ‘regard as unworthy’.