1. ignominious - Adjective
2. ignominious - Adjective Satellite
Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
Deserving ignominy; despicable.
Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
Source: Webster's dictionarySaid I, in scorn all burning hot, In rage and anger high, "You ignominious idiot, Those wings are made to fly!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman
We have no other alternative than independence, or the most ignominious and galling servitude. The legions of our enemies thicken on our plains; desolation and death mark their bloody career; whilst the mangled corpses of our countrymen seem to cry out to us as a voice from Heaven. Samuel Adams
My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death. Anne Rice
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment. Martin Van Buren
Charles Parker: We don't want to make large and ignominious public mistakes. Dorothy L. Sayers
How unfortunate a country is where the marks of generation are ignominious and those of annihilation are honorable! And you call that member one of the 'shameful parts', as though anything were more glorious than to give life and anything more infamous than to take it away. Cyrano de Bergerac