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单词 ignominious
释义
ignominious
adjective
literary
uk
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈmɪn.i.əs/us
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈmɪn.i.əs/
(especiallyofeventsorbehaviour)embarrassingbecause of being acompletefailure:
（尤指事件或行为）耻辱的，丢脸的
an ignominiousdefeat/failure/retreat声誉扫地的落败／失败／撤退
Synonyms
disgraceful
ingloriousliterary
shamefuldisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
  • abase
  • abasement
  • be under a cloudidiom
  • bring/takesomeonedown a peg (or two)idiom
  • bruisesomeone'segoidiom
  • debase
  • deflate
  • disgraced
  • dishonour
  • dishonourable
  • doghouse
  • exhibition
  • ignominiously
  • ignominy
  • in the doghouseidiom
  • indignity
  • knocksomeoneofftheirpedestalidiom
  • stoop
  • stoop tosomething
  • undignified
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ignominiously
(Definition ofignominiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ignominious| American Dictionary

ignominious
adjective
us
/ˌɪɡ·nəˈmɪn·i·əs/
(esp. ofeventsorbehavior)embarrassing:
an ignominiousdefeat
(Definition ofignominiousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofignominious

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The prospect ofignominiousfailure must haunt them continually.
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Not surprisingly, many hawkers of information took their trade with them when they set out for the new world where some met anignominiousend.
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This resulted in a hasty,ignominiousretreat.
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It suits them to forget the postmen's strike and the contemptuous way in which they ground the postmen intoignominiousdefeat.
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His character was largely destroyed by the report and his career as a distinguished voluntary public servant was brought to anignominiousend.
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There is something frightfullyignominiousabout the frame of mind from which this sort of explanation springs.
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These are issues which should determine whether we are a partnership, or something a good deal moreignominious.
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Yet the people to be called in to make farming pay are the very people who have already met with the mostignominiousfailure.
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That is cruelty to humans and anignominiousend to many years of hard work.
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There was no pool to take anything out of, and the result was that the conference broke down inignominiousrecrimination, leaving ill feeling behind.
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We even—this is theignominiouspart—catch sprats now.
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One does not say then that it is only anignominiousproportion of the national income.
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The story is one ofignominiousretreat from their explicit promises.
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I am sure the citizens will feel sad at the ratherignominiousend of this great warship.
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The statement was made in somewhatignominiouscircumstances.
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