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ignominious

/ig-nuh-min-ee-uhs/US // ˌɪg nəˈmɪn i əs //

可耻的,可耻,不光彩的,可耻的是

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : marked by or attended with ignominy; discreditable; humiliating: an ignominious retreat.
    • : bearing or deserving ignominy; contemptible.

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Examples

  • The ignominious outcome of David’s tenure at the Human Rights Campaign comes after two years with him at the helm of the organization.

  • Images of the ignominious withdrawal flip through their minds like a slide deck.

  • To be sure, the Rohingya crisis was an ignominious episode for her but it is not as though the West did anything for the Rohingya either, beyond issuing condemnations.

  • A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past.

  • It was two years after the ignominious end of the Vietnam War and three years after Watergate.

  • International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's ignominious downfall was more than a personal call to account.

  • Mike Castle deserved better than this ugly, ignominious end.

  • Zidane is famous for providing both the greatest and the most ignominious moments in French World Cup history.

  • I betray my beloved parent's confidence, to save you from a certain and ignominious death.

  • Tom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.

  • To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

  • The ignominious failure of the attacks on Somers and Burnet seemed to prove that the assembly was coming round to a better temper.

  • But, as his rhyme ended with such an ignominious fizzle, he hurried away with a snort of disgust.

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