ignominy

How To Use ignominy In A Sentence

• Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• But if you really must chew, a few ground rules should keep you this side of social ignominy.
• It's the final ignominy in a life of abuse. Times, Sunday Times
• The Workers' Coalition experienced the ignominy of total defeat in the last election.
• He sustained horrific internal and external injuries, including a crushed pelvis, blood clots on his brain and had the ignominy of walking around with a colostomy bag for the next four years.
• Always unpleasant to see decent men suffer such personal ignominy. Times, Sunday Times
• It was in that moment of epiphany that England began the long, inevitable descent towards ignominy. Times, Sunday Times
• I didn't want to see anyone sent to his desk in ignominy. Proof
• Their outraged fans should be assured that ignominy is not quite so bad as it is painted. Times, Sunday Times
• Why he didn't bring all this heat the day the Mitchell Report came out, putting his name in ignominy's marquee lights, is a true mystery. With reputation at stake, Clemens in tough save situation