Sample Sentences forignominious (editor-reviewed)
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They retreated in ignominious defeat.ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
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The incident led to her ignominious departure from political office.
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And so within five minutes of their invasion they were in ignominious retreat by the same way as they had come, with a flock of geese hissing after them and pecking at their calves all the way. (source)ignominious = disgraceful or shameful
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...on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, (source)ignominious = shameful
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Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause! (source)ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
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For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this Centre; (source)ignominy = shame or disgrace
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The ultimate ignominy came the day Father set the astronomical clock by the radio.† (source)
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How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. (source)ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
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And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.† (source)
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For among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself, as is shown later on.† (source)
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Pappachi, for his part, was having trouble coping with the ignominy of retirement.† (source)
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It's an absurd as well as an ignominious position.† (source)
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He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.† (source)
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The day has been full of ignominies and triumphs concealed from fear of laughter.† (source)
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Dumbledore, who had always suspected him; Dumbledore, dead on his orders; Dumbledore, whose wand was his now, yet who reached out from the ignominy of death through the boy, the boy — But surely if the boy had destroyed any of his Horcruxes, he, Lord Voldemort, would have known, would have felt it?† (source)
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Kate shouted back, then whispered to Reynie, "Actually, 'ignominious' is the word I don't know."† (source)
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