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
• And, I might add, the ignominy of being caught evading customs duty on several lakhs worth of luxury goods.
• It's the final ignominy in a life of abuse. Times, Sunday Times
• It's a battle of dignity against ignominy, a battle for the rights of the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America.
• 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