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Definition of ignominious in English: ignominiousadjective ˌɪɡnəˈmɪnɪəsˌɪɡnəˈmɪniəs Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. 耻辱的，可鄙的，不光彩的 no other party risked ignominious defeat 没有其他政党冒险接受不光彩的失败。 Example sentencesExamples - Ulysses is a terrible novel and deserves to die an ignominious death.
- The prospect of ignominious home defeat loomed ever larger with the passing minutes, until those dramatic closing stages turned the tide.
- Books, in fact, provide some of the best examples of this ignominious protectionist tendency in Irish history, North and South.
- An early intervention by elements of the US 24th Division resulted in an ignominious defeat.
- This joke has an ignominious history in my own life.
- This tradition was unduly neglected for decades, especially after what was seen as its ignominious defeat in the later Imperial period.
- At one stage the European No 1 was in the ignominious position of propping up the field in 60th place, but his rally at the end restored some dignity.
- Impressively, in a short time you succeeded where Soviet peace efforts struggled for ten years before giving up in ignominious failure.
- Council sporting officials thought children could be psychologically damaged by the trauma of an ignominious drubbing at the hands of more gifted players.
- At what point do we take that ignominious, shabby route down from the moral high ground to defend a Labour government?
- While Scotland will be nervous of repeating their previous ignominious performance, at least Vogts' men will have their supporters behind them.
- But once developed and utilized, it is a tool that can make the difference between glorious victory, and ignominious defeat.
- Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious, it inflicts on the viewers.
- To rub salt in the wound Germany then took second place in the section with a similar margin of victory as they capped possibly the most ignominious week in the history of English sport.
- The recent ignominious defeat for John McEnroe's much touted Davis Cup team underlined the problem.
- However it has not been plain sailing for the American since his arrival at Meadowbank last month in wake of the Scots' ignominious start to the BBL season.
- After Germany's ignominious defeat in World War I, Hitler made Germans feel good for ten years, anyway.
- U.S. forces completed an ignominious withdrawal from bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
- Moreover, he ‘leads’ the team from ignominious to defeat to ignominious defeat.
- Why then has the Nice treaty ratification ended in such ignominious defeat?
Synonyms humiliating, undignified, embarrassing, mortifying, shameful, disgraceful, dishonourable, discreditable, ignoble, inglorious, abject, sorry, wretched, miserable, pitiful rare humiliatory
OriginLate Middle English: from French ignominieux, or Latin ignominiosus, from ignominia (see ignominy). Rhymesconsanguineous, Phineas, sanguineous Definition of ignominious in US English: ignominiousadjectiveˌiɡnəˈminēəsˌɪɡnəˈmɪniəs Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. 耻辱的，可鄙的，不光彩的 no other party risked ignominious defeat 没有其他政党冒险接受不光彩的失败。 Example sentencesExamples - But once developed and utilized, it is a tool that can make the difference between glorious victory, and ignominious defeat.
- At one stage the European No 1 was in the ignominious position of propping up the field in 60th place, but his rally at the end restored some dignity.
- The recent ignominious defeat for John McEnroe's much touted Davis Cup team underlined the problem.
- While Scotland will be nervous of repeating their previous ignominious performance, at least Vogts' men will have their supporters behind them.
- Books, in fact, provide some of the best examples of this ignominious protectionist tendency in Irish history, North and South.
- Ulysses is a terrible novel and deserves to die an ignominious death.
- This tradition was unduly neglected for decades, especially after what was seen as its ignominious defeat in the later Imperial period.
- At what point do we take that ignominious, shabby route down from the moral high ground to defend a Labour government?
- Impressively, in a short time you succeeded where Soviet peace efforts struggled for ten years before giving up in ignominious failure.
- The prospect of ignominious home defeat loomed ever larger with the passing minutes, until those dramatic closing stages turned the tide.
- An early intervention by elements of the US 24th Division resulted in an ignominious defeat.
- To rub salt in the wound Germany then took second place in the section with a similar margin of victory as they capped possibly the most ignominious week in the history of English sport.
- Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious, it inflicts on the viewers.
- This joke has an ignominious history in my own life.
- Moreover, he ‘leads’ the team from ignominious to defeat to ignominious defeat.
- After Germany's ignominious defeat in World War I, Hitler made Germans feel good for ten years, anyway.
- However it has not been plain sailing for the American since his arrival at Meadowbank last month in wake of the Scots' ignominious start to the BBL season.
- Council sporting officials thought children could be psychologically damaged by the trauma of an ignominious drubbing at the hands of more gifted players.
- Why then has the Nice treaty ratification ended in such ignominious defeat?
- U.S. forces completed an ignominious withdrawal from bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Synonyms humiliating, undignified, embarrassing, mortifying, shameful, disgraceful, dishonourable, discreditable, ignoble, inglorious, abject, sorry, wretched, miserable, pitiful
OriginLate Middle English: from French ignominieux, or Latin ignominiosus, from ignominia (see ignominy). |