Ignominious
[,ɪgnə'mɪnɪəs] or [,ɪɡnə'mɪnɪəs]
Definition
(a.) Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
(a.) Deserving ignominy; despicable.
(a.) Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
Typed by Harrison
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, infamous, scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious.
Typed by Betsy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shameful, scandalous, dishonorable, infamous
ANT:Honorable, reputable, creditable
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl--she looked thirteen or upwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Their gallantry is great, but they carry troublesome people through the streets in an ignominious manner, strapped down on a board, my good wench. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Occasionally, it is of service, to-day, for example, I should have come to very ignominious grief without it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Life indeed may be ignominious, shameful to the soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hermione appeared, with amazing persistence, to wish to ridicule him and make him look ignominious in the eyes of everybody. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But to live mechanised and cut off within the motion of the will, to live as an entity absolved from the unknown, that is shameful and ignominious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Trevor