Synonyms for ignominious
ˌɪg nəˈmɪn i əsig·no·min·ious

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1. ignominiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   degrading, debasing, humiliating

2. ignominiousadjective

   Marked by shame or disgrace.

   Synonyms:
   debasing, degrading, humiliating

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1. ignominious

   Synonyms:
   shameful, scandalous, dishonorable, infamous

   Antonyms:
   honorable, reputable, creditable

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1. disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shamefuladjective

   (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

   "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, scurrilous, grim, calamitous, abusive, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, scandalous, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, smuggled, shocking, disastrous, bleak, mordant

   Antonyms:
   honorable, honourable

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1. ignominiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, infamous, scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious

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1. ignominiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   dishonorable, shameful, infamous, disreputable

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1. List of paraphrases for "ignominious":

   dishonorable, inglorious, disgraceful, shameful, despicable

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How to use ignominious in a sentence?

1. H. L. Mencken:

   The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

2. Flavio Volpe:

   The Minister’s drive to achieve another vanity trophy paid for by the regular people who work in Canada’s auto sector is amazing to watch and I congratulate him on this ignominious achievement.

3. Mickael Behn:

   So they deserve the ignominious distinction of being the first to be sued under Libertad Act.

4. Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

   Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

5. George Orwell:

   To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.