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Meanings of ignominious in English
(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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Examples for "black"
Examples for "black"
1
The pet was now in the arms of the woman in black.
2
Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware.
3
Brief shots of black-clad armed men standing at attention, pleased; general joy.
4
Look at your boat, sir; you in the red and black caps.
5
This is not a black-and-white 1930s issue, this is a global issue.
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Ireland has a long and shameful record in terms of social injustice.
2
Failing to confess something sufficiently shameful would result in them being punished.
3
Their remains were left in a shameful shallow grave, their house desecrated.
4
It's shameful, but it happens every day and it needs to stop.
5
Equality Act 2010 means no hiding place for shameful discrimination against women.
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A year ago, she wouldn't have behaved in such a disgraceful way.
2
However her treatment of people with autism is nothing short of disgraceful.
3
We will pursue relentlessly those responsible for this disgraceful attack, he said.
4
Robertson said: The scenes at the end of the game were disgraceful.
5
The Council of Trade Unions have said that the loss is disgraceful.
1
The list is long and inglorious, and getting longer by the day.
2
Then came inglorious rule over a country that descended into civil war.
3
My previous experience of such work had been both brief and inglorious.
4
For long minutes as it seemed to Graham that inglorious struggle continued.
5
Its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had cast a long, inglorious shadow.
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The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
2
He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
3
I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
4
Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
5
But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
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.
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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.
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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.
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There seemed something ignominious in such an end, something futile and self-frustrating.
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So the expedition for martyrdom and crusade came to an ignominious end.
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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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United Kingdom
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