become undignified
Frequency: 6.05.1 per million words
To transition into a state of being undignified.
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Examples (10)
- He feared that arguing in public would become undignified.
- The once elegant ceremony had started to become undignified over the years.
- She refused to let herself become undignified by stooping to their level.
- His behavior in court began to become undignified, much to his lawyer's dismay.
- It's easy for a debate to become undignified if participants lose their temper.
- The old king did not want his final years to become undignified.
- Their desperate attempts to win seemed to become increasingly undignified.
- A person's public image can quickly become undignified with a single mistake.
- To shout and scream would only become undignified and achieve nothing.
- The situation threatened to become truly undignified if they didn't intervene.