All 3 Uses of
ignominious
in
The Idiot
- She was the first to cast her into ignominy; but when they all heard that Marie had returned to the village, they ran out to see her and crowded into the little cottage—old men, children, women, girls—such a hurrying, stamping, greedy crowd.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Muishkin was so absent, that from the very first he could not attend to a word the other was saying; and when the general suddenly stopped before him with some excited question, he was obliged to confess, ignominiously, that he did not know in the least what he had been talking about.†
Chpt 3.3
- "Do you know there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(ignominious) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame -- typically in reference to behavior or character