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Meanings of ignominious in English
(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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Usage of ignominious in English
1
Finishing behind the ABC is an ignominious result for a commercial network.
2
He could imagine few more ignominious endings: steamrolled by the number 2.
3
Following the ignominious defeat the booing and jeering went up several decibels.
4
So he could get his ignominious work over quickly in the morning.
5
The second campaign of Charles against the Scots was short and ignominious.
6
History would remember it as the most ignominious fiasco of Ali's career.
7
They employed the two hours thus granted in making an ignominious escape.
8
Christ's life ended in apparent failure, in ignominious death on the cross.
9
The terms were the most ignominious ever imposed upon a prostrate enemy.
10
Benda continued: The great majority of what you call talent is ignominious.
11
There seemed something ignominious in such an end, something futile and self-frustrating.
12
So the expedition for martyrdom and crusade came to an ignominious end.
13
The Christian would have been got rid of by an ignominious failure.
14
We believe that the days of this ignominious subjection are already numbered.
15
The supermarket chain has signalled an ignominious end for its California venture.
16
Accept, my dear mother, my most heartfelt sympathy in your ignominious defeat.
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Ignominious across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common