ignominy

[US]/ˈɪɡnəmɪni/
[UK]/ˈɪɡnəmɪni/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. disgrace, humiliation

Phrases & Collocations

suffering ignominy

public ignominy

face ignominy

bear ignominy

Example Sentences

the ignominy of being imprisoned.

suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison.

The former middleweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight champ worked his way back from that ignominy, albeit by winning just once, over Dominic Gunn in October.

bring ignominy upon oneself

face the ignominy of defeat

bear the ignominy of being caught cheating

the ignominy of being fired

the ignominy of failure

public ignominy and disgrace

the ignominy of being rejected

trying to avoid ignominy

Real-world Examples

Mr. Trump enters 2020 burdened with the ignominy of being the first sitting president to seek re-election after being impeached.

Source: New York Times

" Oh, the ignominy, the horror of it" !

Source: The Mystery of 813 (Part Two)

There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame.

Source: Lazy Person's Thoughts Journal

By bringing me hither, to die this death of triumphant ignominy before the people!

Source: Red characters

Sometimes they would do some ignoble things but they had no idea of ignominy.

Source: Pan Pan

It certainly was not a mark of his downfall or ignominy, as implied by the film.

Source: Past exam papers for the English Major Test Band 8 reading section.

This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

The Judge, on one side! And who, on the other? The guilty Clifford! Once a byword! Now, an indistinctly remembered ignominy!

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 2)

" I dare say she was right." And, just like that, I was saved from social ignominy by an eighty-six-year-old man.

Source: Still Me (Me Before You #3)

Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy.

Source: Red characters

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