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How To Use ignominious In A Sentence

• However it has not been plain sailing for the American since his arrival at Meadowbank last month in wake of the Scots' ignominious start to the BBL season.
• The man who handed over the Ashes to England for the first time in a generation stood on the threshold of another ignominious defeat yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
• This was followed by an ignominious foray in inflatable boats, where again only a miracle averted tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
• The man who handed over the Ashes to England for the first time in a generation stood on the threshold of another ignominious defeat yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
• What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two! Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
• The vast majority of Survivors who have scored the hidden immunity idol went on to slink out of there in ignominious defeat for not having played it. 'Survivor' preview: Too soon for a merge? | EW.com
• Senators, matrons, and philosophers, expired in ignominious and cruel tortures. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The buyout is an ignominious end for a business that once employed 30,000 people and was synonymous with doorstep deliveries of milk. Times, Sunday Times
• But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed.
• The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White The Love-Master