Ignominious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt” ( Angus Deming).
  • adj. Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable.
  • adj. Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse” ( John Updike).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Marked by shame or disgrace.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
  • adj. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
  • adj. Humiliating; degrading.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Marked with ignominy; incurring or attended with disgrace; degrading; shameful; infamous: as, ignominious punishment; ignominious intrigues.
  • Deserving ignominy; despicable in character; contemptible.
  • Synonyms Disgraceful, opprobrious, disreputable. See ignominy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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