Meaning of ignominy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ignominy, disgrace.
2. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.”

“Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman.”

“Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!”

“It was tribal, almost relentless and, in the case of the official England band, there was a degree of ignominy, too, for repeatedly playing a tune for which the words go “Fuck the IRA”, something that could lead to a full breakdown of their relationship with the FA.”

“The lawyer who shot to ignominy last week with a racist rant at a Manhattan lunch spot apologized Tuesday on social media, where a video of his threat to call immigration agents on Spanish-speaking workers had first gone viral.”

“"I studied to be a diplomat and have been a diplomat for twenty years," Bondarev wrote. "The (Russian foreign) ministry has become my home and family. But I simply cannot any longer share in this bloody, witless and absolutely needless ignominy."”

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