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ignominy
/ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/
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What does ignominy mean?
noun
- Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
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Her word becomes unbelievable, her life an ignominy, and she is swept downward ever downward, into the bottomless perdition of prostitution.
Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy.
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He would rather have performed a noble, just, and generous action, and to have had ignominy for his reward, than for glory.
Why do we respect some vegetables and despise others, when all of them come to an equal honor or ignominy on the table?
I believe the occasion will disturb the founder of it, and make him shudder in his shroud for the ignominy of his countrymen.