ignominious
[ig-nuh-min-ee-uh s]
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Origin of ignominious
Synonyms
See more synonyms for ignominious on Thesaurus.com1. degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful. 2. despicable, ignoble.
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Examples from the Web for ignominious
Contemporary Examples
A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past.
It was two years after the ignominious end of the Vietnam War and three years after Watergate.
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's ignominious downfall was more than a personal call to account.
Mike Castle deserved better than this ugly, ignominious end.
Zidane is famous for providing both the greatest and the most ignominious moments in French World Cup history.
Historical Examples
A groan of distress burst from him, and he fled the place in ignominious rout.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
He pleasantly promises the ignominious death of your chief friends.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
But this was a death of the most ignominious and painful description.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IIFrancis Augustus Cox
Such an experiment was at all events predestined to an ignominious failure.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
But of all these numerous occasions the most ignominious was shortly after the affair with the Grizzly.
Johnny BearE. T. Seton
Word Origin and History for ignominious
adj.
early 15c., from Middle French ignominieux (14c.) or directly from Latin ignominiosus "disgraceful, shameful," from ignominia "loss of a (good) name," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + nomen (genitive nominis) "name" (see name). Influenced by Old Latin gnoscere "come to know." Related: Ignominiously; ignominiousness.
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