Definitionadj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Last update: October 26, 2017
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An ignominious defeat. [adjective]
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Marshall 's Pen also holds the rather ignominious distinction of being perhaps the easiest place in the Caribbean to see Common Starling ! [adjective]
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The Swansea Yeomanry had been severely shaken by its ignominious defeat on the 4th. [adjective]
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"It's such an ignominious thing to be taken for cheating peddlers." [adjective]
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Her eyes filled with tears again, as she thought of her friend--her sister-sitting in that palace alone, forsaken, banished, and looking forward to an ignominious death. [adjective]
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] Oropastes did not dare to intercede for his brother, though this ignominious punishment mortified his ambitious mind more than even a sentence of death could have done. [adjective]
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Therefore the penal code--which much prefers intelligence to muscular vigor--has made, of the four varieties mentioned above, a second category, liable only to correctional, not to Ignominious, punishments. [adjective]
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I now concluded the vengeance of Heaven had overtaken me, and that I must soon finish my career by an ignominious death. [adjective]
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And yet, what choice remains between this lot and the ignominious scaffold. [adjective]
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Separated from any armed force of magnitude sufficient to cope with a sudden invasion, he would surely fall in the struggle, or take refuge in an ignominious flight. [adjective]
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His profession, in the language of the code, entails ignominious and corporal penalties, from imprisonment to the scaffold. [adjective]
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