Ignominy

Word IGNOMINY
Character 8
Hyphenation ig no min y
Pronunciations /ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/

Definitions and meanings of "Ignominy"

What do we mean by ignominy?

Great personal dishonor or humiliation. noun

An instance or source of this. noun

Infliction of disgrace or dishonor; the state of being degraded or held in contempt; infamy. noun

That which brings disgrace or shameful reproach; a cause or source of dishonor. noun

Synonyms Obloquy, Opprobrium, Infamy, Ignominy. These words all started from the idea of one's being talked about shamefully, so that one's name or fame is in great dishonor. Obloquy still stays at that point; opprobrium has taken up somewhat of the general idea of being held in contempt, whether the contempt is expressed or not; infamy carries the evil repute to an extreme, abhorrence and loathing being now a part of the idea; ignominy expresses that peculiarly passive state of being in disgrace by which one is despised and neglected, or it may express the result of official treatment, judicial action, or personal conduct. Ignominy may be supposed to be the state most humbling and painful to the person concerned. noun

Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. noun

An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act. noun

Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation. noun

A state of dishonor noun

Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

Loss of one's reputation; shame; dishonor. Urban Dictionary

A word that is used to indicate that you want to get high with the person you are conversing with. Placed in conversation randomly, it will not make sense to anyone else listening to the conversation. Urban Dictionary

Abject despicable groveling Urban Dictionary

A person so incompetent and excessivley stupid, that they are unworthy to be a part of society and should be cast out of the sight (and more importantly hearing range) of all other human beings. They are more commonly known as cretins, who excel at using thousands upon thousands of words to say nothing at all. Urban Dictionary

A word used far too many times in the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a book in which everyone speaks like they had just finished writing a copy of the King James Bible. It basically means public shame or disgrace. Urban Dictionary

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The word "ignominy" in example sentences

Why he didn't bring all this heat the day the Mitchell Report came out, putting his name in ignominy's marquee lights, is a true mystery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Undeterred by the getting lost and being brought back in ignominy by the local cops, I did it again soon after (but was more careful to chart my course so that I didn't get lost). ❋ Unknown (2000)

Tish's idea was this: We would ride up while they were lunching, pretend to think them real bandits, paying no attention to them if they fired at us, as we knew they had only blank cartridges, and, having taken them prisoners, make them walk in ignominy to the nearest camp, some miles farther. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Jerusalem, but that he would be borne thither in ignominy instead of in his magnificent chariots. ❋ Unknown (1871)

The patrician was executed on the ready accusation of treason, and the wife of Alexander driven with ignominy from the palace, and banished into Africa. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. ❋ Unknown (1206)

I didn't want to see anyone sent to his desk in ignominy. ❋ M-mv (2005)

Herodian, l.v. p. 192.] 59 Hierocles enjoyed that honor; but he would have been supplanted by one Zoticus, had he not contrived, by a potion, to enervate the powers of his rival, who, being found on trial unequal to his reputation, was driven with ignominy from the palace. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The Congress failed to win in its recently discovered ‘strongholds†™ and adding to the ignominy was the defeat in the Sultanpur-Amethi seat, which falls under the Gandhi bastion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Adding further to the ignominy is the fact that one of Ramsay's former proteges, Marcus Wareing, who opened his restaurant at the Berkeley Hotel after a poisonous split with Ramsay, has entered the list at No 52. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The editorial goes on to talk about the "ignominy" of having the IMF in our department of finance and to recall the political peaks of recent decades which saw an end to the troubles on these isles. ❋ Lisa O (2010)

Does McLame really want to end his life in that kind of ignominy? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fact is that everyone is talking about the fact it's been successful, and the reason we can talk about withdrawal on success rather than withdrawal with loss and ignominy which is what we were talking about earlier is because the surge was successful. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the rest, it must be admitted that many who follow this noble profession are unworthy of it and only too well justify the ignominy which is levelled against the entire class. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is a "Sad and Raw portrait of 'ignominy' in American history today!" ❋ Unknown (2005)

So that we may suppose this cup not to have been prepared by those honourable women, compassionating those that were to die, but on purpose by the scribes, and the other persecutors of Christ, studying to heap upon him all kind of ignominy and vexation. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

The 'ignominy' would have been very preferable -- to us, at least, particularly as it need not have lasted beyond to-day, dear Georgie being quite recovered, and at his law again, and no more symptoms of small-pox in anybody. ❋ Unknown (1907)

Me before Pilate with every kind of ignominy, they accused Me falsely, they adjudged Me worthy of death. ❋ William Ralph Inge (1907)

The [civilization] was [composed] over the years based upon the ignominy of the birth [givers]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

1. "[Cathy] did very well on her test today. I wonder if, [ignominy], she beat Larry." 2. "[Ignominy] bro, ignominy." 3. "I want to get so ignominy that I just sit on my couch and laugh at the [ceiling]." ❋ Halik (2012)

❋ Larstait (2003)

Since the Michael Moore tribe has officially become [Stalinist] and banned any more speech critical of Moore by their new [Mooron] administrator, [Moore's] America hating idiotic lies and propaganda clearly show that he and all who listen to him are ignominious and should be forever banished from society. ❋ TwinCities (2007)

"By bringing me [hither], to die this death of [triumphant] [ignominy] before the people! Had either of these agonies been wanting, I had been lost forever." ❋ Notedcharioteer (2019)

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