Usa "undignified" in una frase
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undignified
1. His arms weren't strong enough but if he turned himself around and over into the most undignified possible position he might bring his legs to bear
2. These troops moved along at a quick rate; an undignified and unceremonious way for his chief-ship to make his debut, and one which he bitterly resented
3. Her heart pounded at the thought and it was as much as she could do not to break into an undignified run at every step
4. The Chaplains left me in an undignified silent manner, muttering to themselves and shaking their wise heads while looking at me as if I were the unbalanced one
5. She did not exactly fall, but she staggered and reeled across the room in a very undignified fashion and brought up against the door with a thud that jarred her from head to foot
6. This undignified behavior was again viewed with contempt by the Old Lights and the growing Unitarian movement
7. At the time she had landed with an undignified thump in the middle of the public square, next to a startled Talus and a more than relieved Johan
8. There was no pain, no sensation at all apart from mild discomfort occasioned by my undignified position and his pounding hips
9. The fingers of the hand sprung open as the rest of him hit the floor in an undignified manner
10. She simply thought the name undignified, and she knew just what it should be called instead: Moon Lake
11. Ben was tempted to take the guy's toy away from him and shove it someplace undignified, but he knew better; so instead he sucked in his stomach, stuck our his chest, and raised his head a little higher
12. The town was heaving with Russian sailors, many of whom were heaving in the streets already; what state they would be in by the time they ended their shore leave was too undignified to think of, so we stepped over them and continued our search for some starched sheets for the night
13. Until this human slurry was rounded up in a riot of police vans and subjected to painful and undignified cavity searches, we could only wait and hope while stuffing ourselves with the doyen of all pides*, a sensual mating of a pizza and a pasty that you would happily sell your own children’s kidneys for
14. He flew over the side and disappeared into the water with an undignified splash
15. weak gravity, lost his footing and fell in an undignified heap on the Receiving
16. undignified and he would have lost anyway
17. undignified heap on the rocks which were gathered at the front of the vessel
18. in an undignified heap on the latticed structure
19. She then blasted him for undignified behavior and conduct unbecoming a Senator
20. A place where all this torture and undignified pain and anguish did not exist
21. At Bâle there was hurry and bustle, the half hour they ought to have had there wasted away by some unaccountable loosening of the bandages of discipline on the German side to four minutes--the conductor when questioned said the engine had gone wrong, and explained, with a shrug that was to help hide his shame in this failure of the infallible, that engines were but human--and again there was an undignified scamper down steps and up steps and along platforms, and they arrived panting, pushed in by porters, only just in time into a compartment studded round with sleeping Swiss
22. They left the remains in the room, undignified
23. He swallows thickly as bile rises in his throat, and when he speaks it comes out in an undignified squeak
24. When she could see through her tears she could see that he was taking no interest in the rest of her body shamelessly displayed, spread in the most undignified pose she could imagine
25. I went down the stairs two at a time, totally undignified, and started jogging to my car
26. Undignified, the reaction was
27. These ideas of human evolution from primates furnish some transparency into peoples’ sometimes despicable and undignified activities towards Self and others
28. undignified way, but she quickly calmed her mind, knowing that
29. Instead of which, that undignified creature answered, with an irrepressible sob, "Because you are going away
30. It suddenly seemed to me that this commonplace, prosaic tea was horribly undignified and paltry after all that had happened, and I blushed crimson
31. He regarded the suggestion that he should act such an undignified part, as a kind of sacrilege
32. However, it would be undignified to use weapons on an unarmed peasant: he could lose the respect of the earl’s knights and the other squires
33. Gwenda winced to hear the undignified note of pleading in his voice
34. But it would have been undignified to contradict him, so she said no more
35. Philemon chipped in: “It would be a completely undignified proceeding, and there is no question of the prior submitting himself to it
36. I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome
37. The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified; I would scarce use a harder term
38. But reflecting that this would be undignified, he turned back again, and clearing his throat, he went up to the bedroom
39. Booted and spurred, he scrambled into the hammock with undignified haste
40. The film company was skeptical that a man with Jerry Lee’s volatile and self-destructive history could possibly sound vibrant and vigorous enough to provide the vocal performances of his younger self and effectively called for him to audition for the role, although I doubt it was ever stated in these undignified terms
41. Sitting down as a level member of the dairyman's household seemed at the outset an undignified proceeding
42. Duplicate committees often appear; an undignified scramble for deposits takes place; persons with undesirable reputations and motives can easily inject themselves into the situation
43. * In Graham’s day, the most prestigious investment banks generally steeredclear of the IPO business, which was regarded as an undignified exploitation of naïve investors
44. This process was so undignified and unscrupulous that even at the time people called it the ‘Scramble for Africa’
45. I don't like this cobbling sort of business—I don't like it at all; it's undignified; it's not my place
46. I remember, too, that I was in an exceedingly foolish and undignified position, for, thanks to this insolent scoundrel, I was at a complete loss what to say
47. He began each time talking of some peculiar and utterly irrelevant nonsense ; he talked gaUy, excitedly ; laughed, goodness knows what at, and even chuckled in an undignified way, as I had never seen him do before
48. And indeed the request was in any case unseemly, undignified, strange, coming from a man who had such a dignified fur coat, such a respectable jacket of a superb dark green colour, and such distinguished decorations adorning that jacket
49. But all their efforts had been in vain and some of these suitors had been forced to beat an undignified and even comic retreat, owing to the firm and ironical resistance they met from the strong-willed young person
50. But of late they have grown, more candid and are ashamed of the expression ‘love of country,’ and have annihilated the very spirit of the words as something injurious and petty and undignified
