Indignity has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | They expressed their indignity at the claims. | |
| 2. | It is an indignity to take advantage of uneducated people. | |
| 3. | "O light of Troy, our refuge! why and how / this long delay? Whence comest thou again, / long-looked-for Hector? How with aching brow, / worn out by toil and death, do we behold thee now! / But oh! what dire indignity hath marred / the calmness of thy features? Tell me, why / with ghastly wounds do I behold thee scarred?" | |
| 4. | If you refuse my open challenge, there is no advantage I will not take of you, no indignity with which I will not load you, until the very name of Ravenswood shall be the sign of everything that is dishonourable, as it is already of all that is villainous. |