(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
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The pet was now in the arms of the woman in black.
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Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware.
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Brief shots of black-clad armed men standing at attention, pleased; general joy.
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Look at your boat, sir; you in the red and black caps.
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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.
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Failing to confess something sufficiently shameful would result in them being punished.
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Their remains were left in a shameful shallow grave, their house desecrated.
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It's shameful, but it happens every day and it needs to stop.
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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.
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However her treatment of people with autism is nothing short of disgraceful.
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We will pursue relentlessly those responsible for this disgraceful attack, he said.
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Robertson said: The scenes at the end of the game were disgraceful.
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The Council of Trade Unions have said that the loss is disgraceful.
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Finishing behind the ABC is an ignominious result for a commercial network.
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He could imagine few more ignominious endings: steamrolled by the number 2.
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Following the ignominious defeat the booing and jeering went up several decibels.
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So he could get his ignominious work over quickly in the morning.
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The second campaign of Charles against the Scots was short and ignominious.
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The captain stood at the stern addressing the bow with opprobrious language.
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He called the panther every opprobrious name that fell to his tongue.
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I am no impostor, my Lord, nor have I deserved opprobrious language.
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Every tongue was engaged in loading me with the most opprobrious epithets!
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But who ever heard the opprobrious term 'fortune-hunter' given to a woman?
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The list is long and inglorious, and getting longer by the day.
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Then came inglorious rule over a country that descended into civil war.
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My previous experience of such work had been both brief and inglorious.
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For long minutes as it seemed to Graham that inglorious struggle continued.
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Its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had cast a long, inglorious shadow.
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The difference in result is often decisive victory instead of inglorious defeat.
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While the system is in operation you will be free but inglorious.
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But that hasn't prevented a long and inglorious catalogue of eye-popping attempts.
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But now the spirits of the storm have swept him away inglorious.
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Yet the career of the Achaian League was not an inglorious one.
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Equally harmless and inglorious was the catastrophe of Susy and her friend.
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It was an inglorious end to one of Ireland's stellar business careers.
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We drop through a Time-hole, and find ourselves in an inglorious anachronism.
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Napoleon bewails the inglorious fate for which he seems to be reserved.
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His slaves by no means led lives of luxury and inglorious ease.
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There was a Thoreau-therestill is-inevery New England village, usually inglorious.
