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单词 ignominy
释义
ignominy
noun[U]
literary
uk
/ˈɪɡ.nə.mɪ.ni/us
/ˈɪɡ.nə.mɪ.ni/
publicembarrassment:
耻辱，侮辱
Theincumbentpartyexperiencedthe ignominy oftotaldefeatin the lastelection.执政党在上次选举中蒙受了大败的耻辱。
Synonyms
disgrace
shame
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
  • ignominious
  • ignominiously
  • in the doghouseidiom
  • indignity
  • knocksomeoneofftheirpedestalidiom
  • stoop
  • stoop tosomething
  • undignified
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(Definition ofignominyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofignominy

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I mention the pauper funeral here because its specter motivated members of the working class to avoid itsignominyat whatever cost.
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The sitar seems to have saved a considerable number of people from theignominyof scoring nothing in this section.
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The suspicion regarding the king's religious orientation was sufficiently problematic without theignominyof the nuns' conspiratorial aid.
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In virtually every case, however, these blunders were overcome or narrowly rescued fromignominy, and thus transgured into elements of satisfaction and even sublimity.
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Other writers warned that colonies were no place to escape socialignominy.
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Ignominywill have powerful deterrent effects, but weak rehabilitative ones.
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But in recent centuries prestige turned intoignominyas early inhabitants were now perceived by villagers as uncouth savages from an age before proper humans appeared on the scene.
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It is not the consolidating aspects of the state action doctrine, however, that explains itsignominybut rather the limits that doctrine imposed on remedies against private persons.
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Greg frequently invokes the common discourse of the legible, permanence of sin that made absolute a fallen woman's destiny along a downward trajectory towardignominyand death.
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When moving for a definition we were treated withignominy, hatred, ridicule and contempt, and we were coerced into silence.
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One airman was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and discharged withignominy.
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First, what is the justification for subjecting that person at any stage at all to theignominyof being debarred from qualification under the scheme?
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Are we to spoil and end this record with a chapter ofignominytonight?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
And she will not go through the difficulty andignominyof having the matter struck off.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We say that the union was a mistake, anignominy, and a failure.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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