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Recent Examples of undignified
What other actress would have the attitude to star in a film with the sarcastically undignified title My Old Ass?
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Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
The crackly, award-winning biscuit ($8) shatters between your teeth and smears a somewhat undignified but welcome peck of powdered sugar on your lips.
—Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2024
Echo Park Lake Swan Boat Race Photo: Getty Images
Paddling a goofy little boat with your feet is already pretty undignified, but imagine it at a competitive pace.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
The previous three Presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and François Hollande—were all failures of various, and sometimes fairly absurd and undignified, degrees.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
The crackly, award-winning biscuit ($8) shatters between your teeth and smears a somewhat undignified but welcome peck of powdered sugar on your lips.
—Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2024
Echo Park Lake Swan Boat Race Photo: Getty Images
Paddling a goofy little boat with your feet is already pretty undignified, but imagine it at a competitive pace.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2024
The previous three Presidents of France—Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, and François Hollande—were all failures of various, and sometimes fairly absurd and undignified, degrees.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undignified
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Unlike a number of its competitors, Apple had no interest in producing artificial general intelligence, a quest that to the company seems unrealistic and almost frivolous.Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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Does litigation financing facilitate frivolous lawsuits?Christine McDaniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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After all, these goofy buddy comedies aren’t really for the critics, right?Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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But that’s like the goofiest (expletive) move in the history of the UFC.Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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Packed with silly hijinks, this 2004 comedy also stars Kristin Chenoweth and Kristin Davis.Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Staff take part in silly skits and showcase rare albums that have not been digitized from the station's giant record collection.Meira Gebel, Axios, 16 Dec. 2024
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Miss Pettigrew can be a bit too giddy for its own good, but Adams matches that flamboyance at every giggly step.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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On 10 nights each season, the Brothers Manning pile into their Monday Night Football sidecar, offering football junkies a bracing dose of hardcore X’s and O’s that’s regularly leavened by an almost giddy irreverence.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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If a fake time limit is being used, that’s often frowned upon by insiders who would shame those developers undertaking such an unseemly route.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Jorge López Released by the New York Mets after an unseemly outburst on the field that López almost immediately regretted, the veteran righty has been a dominant force for the Cubs.Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 25 Aug. 2024
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Notably, the inspector general's review said there was no evidence that the investigations were influenced by politics or other improper considerations.Robert Legare, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
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The final ingredient of the DOGE cocktail is the potential improper conduct of the entity itself.Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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Orange Beach has a vulgarity ordinance on the books, which was enacted about a decade ago amid concerns about vulgar or indecent T-shirts and other merchandise sold at souvenir stores.al, al, 20 Jan. 2023
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Because there are more good people than indecent ones.Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
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“Undignified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undignified. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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