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ignominious
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Steppenwolf
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Let suicide be as stupid, cowardly, shabby as you please, call it an infamous and ignominious escape; still, any escape, even the most ignominious, from this treadmill of suffering was the only thing to wish for.†
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ignominious = deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Let suicide be as stupid, cowardly, shabby as you please, call it an infamous and ignominious escape; still, any escape, even the most ignominious, from this treadmill of suffering was the only thing to wish for.†
Indeed it was just in that line that I was overstocked, for the ignominy under which I suffered lay just in this—that I saw my own situation so clearly and was so very conscious, too, of hers.†

ignominy = shame or disgrace
The strong man led on a leash like a dog—lamentable sight—a large, beautiful but terribly emaciated wolf, whose eyes were cowed and furtive; and it was as disgusting as it was intriguing, as horrible as it was all the same secretly entertaining, to see this brutal tamer of animals put the noble and yet so ignominiously obedient beast of prey through a series of tricks and sensational turns.†

ignominiously = in a manner that deserves or brings disgrace or shame

Definitions:

(1) (ignominious)
deserving or bringing disgrace or shame -- typically in reference to behavior or character
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)