indignity

  • 31indignity — /indignatiy/ In the law of divorce, a species of cruelty addressed to the mind, sensibilities, self respect, or personal honor of the subject, rather than to the body. Indignities justifying grant of divorce may consist of vulgarity, unmerited… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 32treat with indignity — index disoblige, humiliate, offend (insult) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 33intolerable indignity — An indignity amounting to a species of mental cruelty, thereby constituting a ground of divorce under some statutes. Wirthman v Wirthman, 225 Mo App 692, 39 SW2d 404 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 34outrage and indignity — A wrong capable of causing mental anguish in addition to bodily suffering. McKinley v Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Co. 44 Iowa 314 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 35personal indignity — A ground for divorce, consisting of an act insulting or humiliating to the victim, evidencing hate or estrangement of the offender from the innocent spouse, as a result of which the victim finds further cohabitation intolerable. 24 Am J2d Div & S …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 36Indignities — Indignity In*dig ni*ty, n.; pl. {Indignities}. [L. indignitas: cf. F. indignit[ e]. See {Indign}.] Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 37Terry v. Ohio — SCOTUSCase Litigants=Terry v. Ohio ArgueDate=December 12 ArgueYear=1967 DecideDate=June 10 DecideYear=1968 FullName=John W. Terry v. State of Ohio USVol=392 USPage=1 Citation=88 S. Ct. 1868; 20 L. Ed. 2d 889; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 1345; 44 Ohio Op. 2d… …

    Wikipedia

  • 38Israel and the apartheid analogy — The State of Israel s treatment of the Palestinians has been likened by many to a system of apartheid, analogous to South Africa s treatment of non whites during South Africa s apartheid era. [http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=25… …

    Wikipedia

  • 39put down — Synonyms and related words: Parthian shot, abase, abasement, abash, account for, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, affront, annihilate, ante, ante up, apply to, ascribe to, aspersion, asphyxiate, assign to, atrocity, attach to, attribute to …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 40outrage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. violence, wrong, affront, harm, damage, injury, abuse; transgression, infraction, violation. See evil, badness, disrespect. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. indignity, abuse, affront; see insult . v. Syn.… …

    English dictionary for students