Meaning

In a manner which is ignominious (“especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable; (generally) causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful”)..

Example Sentences

Men ignorant in letters, ſtudious for their bellies, and ignominiouſly lazie, vnleſſe ſome fevv that giue themſelues to nauigation; and become indifferent good Pilots.

But the death of the royal captive, vvho vvas ignominiouſly beheaded, diſgraced the triumph of Rome and of Chriſtianity; […]

A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.

He laughed rather ruefully, as he described how he had discovered a very rare species of fern in an inaccessible place, and in his efforts to obtain it had lost his footing, and slipped ignominiously into a neighbouring pond.

But his [James Dewey Watson]'s official career there ended ignominiously in 2007 after he ignited an uproar by suggesting, in an interview with The Sunday Times in London, that Black people, over all, were not as intelligent as white people.

Word Forms

• more ignominiously
• most ignominiously

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