All 4 Uses of
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Notes from the Underground
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3ignominiously = in a manner that deserves or brings disgrace or shame
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3ignominious = deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3
- You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy.†
Chpt 1.11 *ignominy = shame or disgrace
Definition:
deserving or bringing disgrace or shame -- typically in reference to behavior or character