ignominiously

Adverb

Meaning

In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

shamefully ingloriously dishonorably disgracefully dishonourably discreditably badly battleship darkly dreadfully scandalously basely abjectly ignobly despicably
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Antonyms

grandly easily fairly properly freely famously
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Examples

The plaint that there hasn't been enough time for the eye to evolve turns out to be not just wrong but dramatically, decisively, ignominiously wrong. Richard Dawkins

... as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. Donna Tartt

We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell. John Updike

Is it not better to die valiantly, than ignominiously to lose our wretched and dishonoured lives after being the sport of others' insolence? Catiline

his grades were disgracefully low Source: Internet

It pains me now to think of those little rag legs flying ignominiously over his head, yet that was a long time ago, and before he had become a personality…. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ignobly ignominious ignominious death ignominiousness ignominity ignominy