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ignominious
Meaning: deserving public shame
ignominious in a sentence
How ignominious is used in real sentences:
The team suffered an ignominious defeat in the finals.
The team's ignominious loss became the talk of the school.
“Rather than make an ignominious admission that Company policy had sacrificed a ship, the directors changed practice without announcing a verdict; gradually, caution redrew the highway across the southern Indian Ocean.”
— from the passage The Eastern Turn
“She also noted that dismissing oral accounts would be an ignominious failure for a project conducted by invitation, especially because those accounts had guided the team toward stable, old boulders.”
— from the passage The Moraine Calendar
Synonyms for ignominious
Other words for ignominious — disgraceful, humiliating and shameful — carry the same meaning.
- disgraceful
- humiliating
- shameful
Antonyms of ignominious
Words that mean the opposite of ignominious:
- honorable
- glorious
Where it comes from
From Latin in- 'not' + nomen 'name' — losing one's good name
Memory hook
IG (not) + NOMINIOUS (name) — lost one's name.
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