Explore Ignominious through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like black or disgraceful. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Ignominious meaning
Marked by great disgrace, dishonour, humiliation, or shame; disgraceful, shameful.
Synonyms of Ignominious
Using Ignominious
- The main meaning on this page is: Marked by great disgrace, dishonour, humiliation, or shame; disgraceful, shameful.
- Useful related words include: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious.
- In the example corpus, ignominious often appears in combinations such as: an ignominious, the ignominious, ignominious defeat.
Context around Ignominious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ignominious
- In this selection, "ignominious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, enigmatic, nunes, defeat, first and turn stand out and add context to how "ignominious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the ignominious fall of and and the ignominious manner of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ignominious" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ignominious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Broussard, 71, doesn’t hide from his ignominious past or try to rationalize his misdeeds. (15 words)
Even with Embiid sidelined with a sprained right kneeand suffered another ignominious first-round playoff sweep. (16 words)
The atmosphere is effectively moody some of the time but rarely genuinely scary, leaving little more than that ignominious checklist. (20 words)
It suffices to say that it is high time we delivered the state from the pages of political history that gave it ignominious mention as one of the States that have literary been passing through bouts of chequered history. (39 words)
Early on September 19, Azerbaijan’s president set in motion a lightning-fast military plan months in the making that would redraw the geopolitical map and avenge an ignominious defeat suffered by his father some 30 years before. (38 words)
Speaking from Frankfurt ahead of Friday's year-long anniversary of the conflict, retired General Ben Hodges predicted that 2023 may well conclude in ignominious - and politically catastrophic - defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin. (34 words)
With the disgrace of Norton and the ignominious fall of Duncan, could Guyana see the movement away from party street fighters trying to become party leaders and seeking the presidency of Guyana? (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Early on September 19, Azerbaijan’s president set in motion a lightning-fast military plan months in the making that would redraw the geopolitical map and avenge an ignominious defeat suffered by his father some 30 years before.
Even with Embiid sidelined with a sprained right kneeand suffered another ignominious first-round playoff sweep.
Speaking from Frankfurt ahead of Friday's year-long anniversary of the conflict, retired General Ben Hodges predicted that 2023 may well conclude in ignominious - and politically catastrophic - defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The ouster was an ignominious turn in the career of a man who had once been rumored as a possible presidential contender in Republican circles.
This terrified Byrne, who was desperate to avoid being carved up by the anatomist’s knife or put on display after his death — an ignominious fate usually reserved for criminals.
But after Trump’s ignominious defeat in 2020 and subsequent criminal indictments, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, retreated to a more private life in Miami with their three children.
President Joe Biden compared Trump supporters to “garbage” on Tuesday, he was following in a long and ignominious line of Democrats who let their disgust with their fellow Americans seep through.
Then there’s the enigmatic, ignominious ForgetItJake, who has doxxed Teddy by releasing her personal email address, cellphone number, street address and faculty photo.
Well, what he will be remembered for, we can’t change — and that’s the spectacular work that he did and the ignominious manner of his demise.
With the disgrace of Norton and the ignominious fall of Duncan, could Guyana see the movement away from party street fighters trying to become party leaders and seeking the presidency of Guyana?
Broussard, 71, doesn’t hide from his ignominious past or try to rationalize his misdeeds.
Cushing’s tightening storage capacity played a central role in WTI’s ignominious dive into negative prices on 20 April, ahead of the May contract expiry.
It suffices to say that it is high time we delivered the state from the pages of political history that gave it ignominious mention as one of the States that have literary been passing through bouts of chequered history.
Patel is a former aide to (R-Tulare) and was directly involved in Nunes’ ignominious efforts to undermine the investigation into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Say a little prayer for each of them and the executives thrown under the bus on the Monday mornings following their ignominious releases.
The atmosphere is effectively moody some of the time but rarely genuinely scary, leaving little more than that ignominious checklist.
This is grotesquely irresponsible both on moral grounds and on the long-term trajectory of growth and productivity, and the kind of attitude that is going to doom a Biden presidency to ignominious failure.
By Tuesday morning, Morales had fled the country to Mexico, where he immediately resumed the loud enumeration of the alibis he’d contrived to explain away the ignominious misfortune he’d brought upon himself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered his most ignominious congressional defeat when he sought to add liberal justices to balance a conservative-dominated court just months after his landslide 1936 re-election.
He even nursed the ambition to be replaced by his wife, Grace Mugabe, an ambition that was checkmated by the military which eventually booted him out of office in ignominious circumstances.
Common combinations with ignominious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an ignominious 6×
- the ignominious 5×
- ignominious defeat 4×
- in ignominious 3×
- ignominious and 2×
- ignominious turn 2×
- and ignominious 2×
- his ignominious 2×
- ignominious failure 2×
- rather ignominious 2×