Sample sentences for IGNOMINIOUS

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Definition

deserving or bringing disgrace or shame — typically in reference to behavior or character

ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame

ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame

...on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominious = shameful

Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ignominy = disgrace

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.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

ignominious = disgraceful or shameful

Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1

ignominy = disgrace

For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this Centre;
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

ignominy = shame or disgrace

Ignominy in ransom and free pardon
Are of two houses; lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

ignominy = disgrace

How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart

ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame

By bringing me hither, to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = shame

Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = disgrace

I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ignominy = shame or disgrace

Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ignominy = shame or disgrace

Could the demon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ignominy = shame or disgrace

Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = disgrace

Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee and the sorrow without.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = disgrace

Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominious = shameful

The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = disgrace

Thus we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

ignominy = disgrace

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!
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame

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