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deserving or bringing disgrace or shame — typically in reference to behavior or character- They retreated in ignominious defeat.
ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
- The incident led to her ignominious departure from political office.
- 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
- Thus she will be a living sermon against sin, until the ignominious letter be engraved upon her tombstone.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- 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
- ...on the very day when Hester Prynne first wore her ignominious badge,Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the graveWilliam Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
- 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
- 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 in ransom and free pardon
Are of two houses; lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure - How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print and dead man's sentiment.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
- By bringing me hither, to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- 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
- Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- 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
- Her sin, her ignominy, were the roots which she had struck into the soil.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- 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
- The very ideal of ignominy was embodied and made manifest in this contrivance of wood and iron.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- 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
- 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
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ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame
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ignominy = shame or disgrace
ignominy = shame or disgrace
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ignominy = disgrace
ignominious = bringing disgrace or shame