- intolerable 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. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
intolerable indignity
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