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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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How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment. (source)
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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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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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...on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge, (source)ignominious = shameful
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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)ignominy = shame or disgrace
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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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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)ignominiously = in a manner that deserves or brings disgrace or shame
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But these ignominies and dangers were as nothing compared with the peril of white women, many bereft by the war of male protection, who lived alone in the outlying districts and on lonely roads.† (source)
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Turner felt, for the first time, the full ignominy of the retreat.† (source)ignominy = shame or disgrace
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In the fall of 1943, for unknown reasons, Watanabe was transferred to the military's most ignominious station for NCOs, a POW camp.† (source)ignominious = deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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She remembered from her childhood diving lessons at Camp Tapawingo that there came an instant, that first time on the high board, when you either had to try it or retreat ignominiously to let the girl behind you have her crack at it.† (source)ignominiously = in a manner that deserves or brings disgrace or shame
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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)ignominy = shame or disgrace
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Kate shouted back, then whispered to Reynie, "Actually, 'ignominious' is the word I don't know."† (source)ignominious = deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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