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ignominious
/ɪɡ.nəˈmɪ.ni.əs/
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What does ignominious mean?
adjective
- Especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable.
- Causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪɡ.nəˈmɪ.ni.əs/
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And it made the action seem all the sadder, that Octavius was dragged out in such an ignominious manner.
The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl—she looked thirteen or upwards.
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She had, by her mere presence at the head of the French army, turned their apparent triumph into ignominious defeat.
The Indians who were thus placed between civilization and death, found themselves obliged to live by ignominious labor like the whites.
Such ignominious punishment may prevent theft, but it must tend to destroy every vestige of self-respect and pride in criminals, and render them hopelessly reckless.