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Ignominious

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Adjective

1. black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful

(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

Example Sentences:
'Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands'
'an ignominious retreat'
'inglorious defeat'
'an opprobrious monument to human greed'
'a shameful display of cowardice'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ignominious

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adjective
1. 
characterized by or bringing on ignominy; shameful; dishonorable; disgraceful
2. 
contemptible; despicable
3. 
degrading; humiliating

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ignominious

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adj.
1. Characterized by or deserving shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" (Harry Anderson).
2. Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse" (John Updike).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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