ignominious

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ignominious
adj. disgraceful, humiliating; deserving contempt, ignoble, mean, base


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ignominious
Adjective
1. (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
(synonym) black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
(similar) dishonorable, dishonourable



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Ignominious
(a.)
Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
  
 
(a.)
Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
  
 
(a.)
Deserving ignominy; despicable.
  

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ignominious
adj.
ناشائستہ, زبوں, معيوب, پاجي پنے کا, نالائق, بدنامي کا, شرمناک, فضيحت ناک, باعث ذلت, موجب رسوائي

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ignominious
Synonyms and related words:
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, criminal, delinquent, derogatory, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, evil, hardly the thing, ignoble, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, inglorious, not done, not the thing, notorious, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, sacrilegious, scandalous, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shoddy, sinful, sordid, terrible, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unrighteous, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong, wrongful
  

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