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单词 ignominious
释义
ignominious
(ɪgnəmɪniəs )
adjective
If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success. [formal]
...their ignominious defeat.
Many thought that he was doomed to ignominious failure.
Synonyms: humiliating, disgraceful, shameful, sorry  
ignominiously adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Their soldiers had to retreat ignominiously after losing hundreds of lives.
Collocations:
ignominious end
The ignominious end does not mean he leaves no legacy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Its life looks set for an ignominious end.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
If no buyers emerge, it too could meet an ignominious end in the recycling yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
For a warrior prince, it was an ignominious end.
Jonathan Gregson BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty (2002)
More than a century of proud history will soon come to an ignominious end when these mutually owned lenders are subsumed into larger rivals.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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