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deserving or bringing disgrace or shame — typically in reference to behavior or character
- You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.1.11 — Part 1 Chapter 11 (31% in)
- Of course the only thing left for it is to dismiss all that with a wave of its paw, and, with a smile of assumed contempt in which it does not even itself believe, creep ignominiously into its mouse-hole.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (39% in)
- For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (42% in)
- For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.1.3 — Part 1 Chapter 3 (43% in)
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