ignominious

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Moreover--ignominious, but true--when the tumblers were emptied, things did begin to look a shade less blue.

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  1. adjective 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. adjective Deserving disgrace or shame; despicable.
  3. adjective Degrading; debasing: "The young people huddled with their sodden gritty towels and ignominious goosebumps inside the gray-shingled bathhouse” (John Updike).

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  • Tyranny of every kind he sincerely detested; but most of all ecclesiastical tyranny, deeming the slavery of the mind the most abject and ignominious, and in its consequences more pernicious than any other. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • After I hung up, Ben's voice crackled through the open door between our offices. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • With every vampiric draught of vital energy that the Gorgon drained from Vardanes 'body, her own body became imbued with life. —  Conan the Wanderer
  • Moreover--ignominious, but true--when the tumblers were emptied, things did begin to look a shade less blue. —  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
  • This has led to an ignominious situation--ignominious, that is, to the architect. —  Architecture and Democracy
 

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  1. = French ignominieux = Spanish Portuguese Italian ignominioso, from Latin ignominiosus, disgraceful, shameful, from ignominia, disgrace: see ignominy.
 

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