Sample Sentences for
ignominious
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  • ...on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge,  (source)
    ignominious = shameful
  • 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
  • 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)
  • How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment.  (source)
    ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Pappachi, for his part, was having trouble coping with the ignominy of retirement.†  (source)
  • It's an absurd as well as an ignominious position.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The day has been full of ignominies and triumphs concealed from fear of laughter.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Kate shouted back, then whispered to Reynie, "Actually, 'ignominious' is the word I don't know."†  (source)
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