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Ignominiously

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ig·no·min·i·ous  (gn-mn-s)
adj.
1. Marked by shame or disgrace: "It was an ignominious end ... as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt" Angus Deming.
2. Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable.
3. Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse" John Updike.
igno·mini·ous·ly adv.
igno·mini·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.ignominiously - in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low"
discreditably, disgracefully, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully, dishonorably
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Of course the only thing left for it is to dismiss all that with a wave of its paw, and, with a smile of assumed contempt in which it does not even itself believe, creep ignominiously into its mouse-hole.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The idea of being taken and brought back ignominiously to the ship was so inexpressibly repulsive to me, that I was determined by no hasty and imprudent measures to render such an event probable.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
But she thrust him ignominiously away and behind her.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
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