(n.) Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
(2) "This unfair and unequal treatment means that children with disabilities – already so disadvantaged – suffer further indignities.
(3) Asked by the BBC whether he would apologise or comply with a demand from Miliband for him to resign, he said: "Well, if someone can explain anything that I said as factually incorrect of course I would consider it...People are slightly spinning and loading into what I said in a way to get false indignation."
(4) The ALA collects information on which books are objected to and reports on prominent recurring themes that tend to generate moral or ideological indignation.
(5) We accept on behalf of our client that public interest demands nothing but total indignation and condemnation from all media reporting but such reporting ought not to persist at the expense of undermining Mr Barklie’s right to a fair trial.” His lawyers said the Metropolitan police had confirmed ”that arrangements were in hand to take the investigation to the next stage”.
(6) Not since Novak Djokovic beat him 6-1, 6-0 in the semi-final of the 2007 Miami Masters – when Murray was injured – has the Scot had to suffer such indignity.
(7) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
(8) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(9) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
(10) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
(11) And we are increasing the number of single rooms in the NHS to ensure no patient suffers this indignity when it is unjustified."
(12) But the State Department's indignation over the leaks of allegedly valuable secrets was, and remains, preposterous.
(13) 2.42am BST 6 mins Jamaica indignant as a corner is awarded when they thought they were getting a foul.
(14) The human pressure cooker could not contain his indignation at having to watch Channel 4 news reporter, Fatima Manji , cover the tragic attack in Nice.
(15) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(16) I cried at the time, tears of sadness for her, guilt for me (I should be able to do more), and indignation and anger about the unfairness of it all.
(17) It was classic Loach territory: exploitation, the indignity of unemployment, the resilience and humour of working-class people.
(18) When Elinor and Marianne debate the importance of money in the company of Edward, Marianne reacts indignantly to Elinor's declaration that happiness has much to do with "wealth": "'Elinor, for shame!'
(19) It was found that in a somewhat cyclical succession, patient deviance was followed by the staff's spontaneous moral indignation.
(20) For the next five years at least that is an indignity he will not have to worry about.
Insult
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
(v. i.) To leap or jump.
(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(2) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(3) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(4) Combined with histological analysis, these results suggest a more rapid recovery of normal spermatogenesis after physical insult with LAC treatment.
(5) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(6) Among the various physiological factors involved in the development of a nephrotoxic insult, certain renal transport systems may be important.
(7) In addition, PROM is the result of direct bacterial insults or host-mediated autodestruction in response to bacterial presence or challenge.
(8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(9) This toxic effect, although not seen in intact nigrostriatal systems, may indicate L-dopa toxicity on transplanted DA cells, or on DA cells maximally activated to recover from insult.
(10) Under the conditions employed in these studies, repeated occlusions give rise to progressively more prolonged deficits in brain protein synthesis activity, which may thus provide a useful index of the severity of the accumulated ischemic insult.
(11) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
(12) We also observed a difference in the pattern and severity of alterations between repeated ischemic insults and single ischemia.
(13) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
(14) These findings suggest that NB-818 may be useful for clinical treatment of neurological deficit after an ischemic insult.
(15) For example, patients suffering from transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) experience onset of insult within 6 hours of a transfusion and have the presence of leukoagglutinins in their serum.
(16) This review article discusses the clinical manifestations and the diagnostic workup of insults to the kidney in patients with cancer.
(17) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
(18) It is hypothesized that transmission failure of interneuronal systems in the initial period following insult may be a general response occurring in wide areas of the central nervous system, and not restricted to areas to which mechanical stress is directly applied.
(19) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
(20) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.