Ignominiously
[ignə'miniəsli]
Definition
(adv.) In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.
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Examples
- Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And the Wirt's black, beetle-like, broad-shouldered figure went on ignominiously in front, towards the noise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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