Ignominious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IGNOMINIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• marked by disgrace or shame
• deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
• Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
• Deserving ignominy; despicable.
• Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked with or characterized by disgrace or sham; dishonorable

Words related to IGNOMINIOUS

ignominiously19

Words that contain IGNOMINIOUS

ignominiously19 ignominiousness18 ignominiousnesses20

How to use IGNOMINIOUS in a sentence

• But will the many always thus submit themselves to the domination of the few? We believe that the days of this ignominious subjection are already numbered.
• An ignominious war has been declared against a weak country and in Russia the indignation which I fully share is tremendous.
• Thus began that triumphant march of the King of Kings, a march so ignominious on earth, and so glorious in heaven.
• Lord, and by about a dozen of his men, who all preferred an honourable death to an ignominious life.
• If infirmity shrink with horror from any particular kind of death, none was at that time more ignominious than the death of the cross.
• Either one, being driven by life, or drawn to it, seemed less ignominious than trifling with life.
• What we called our splendid isolation became a rather ignominious sleeping-partnership with Prussia.
• He called upon me to explain myself, with a Sir-r, so pronounced, as to show that one of the most ignominious words in our language was in his head.
• How did I ever fall so low! God help me! Is there nothing else for me but this ignominious death? But I must save my people from knowing.
• This course seemed rather ignominious, but prudence decided in its favor.
• Ochus then persuaded Ariaspes that he had offended his father, and was about to be put to a cruel and ignominious death, whereupon that prince in despair committed suicide.
• This ignominious conveyance, yellow-bodied, on high wheels, and lined with sheet-iron, is divided into two compartments.
• The King of the Romans was driven to take refuge in a mill, where he soon made an ignominious surrender.
• To deprive a man of his beard was a token of ignominious subjection, and is still a common mode of punishment in some Asiatic countries.
• In the more densely peopled districts, and amongst the middle classes especially, the failure of the thing was often most ignominious.
• Do you say that no such ignominious possibility hangs over any boy in this audience? I tell you it is not always the first, but sometimes the fairest born.
• Separated from any armed force of magnitude sufficient to cope with a sudden invasion, he would surely fall in the struggle, or take refuge in an ignominious flight.
• The second disaster which befell the two Republics was the ignominious and cowardly surrender of Prinsloo, which took place on the 1st of August, 1900.
• He gave in his confession, and met his ignominious death with the same bold front and reckless daring he had manifested during all his life.
• Such ignominious terms were there insisted on, that worse could scarcely be demanded, were Charles totally vanquished, a prisoner, and in chains.
• And that had been the end of it all, the ignominious end.
• I am not very mechanical, but it sounded ignominious to me.
• He did not look as the boy believed a man should look who has just been condemned to die the ignominious death of hanging.
• Unless he was prepared to accept ignominious defeat he must brace himself, or it would be too late.
• The conviction is to be followed by the most ignominious punishment ever inflicted on large masses of men.
• The fourth part was devoted to more ignominious articles, huddled indiscriminately into a corner.
• The indignant king consigned all of the deputation, consisting of eight gentlemen, to prison, and condemned the leader, John Patgul, to an ignominious death.
• It does not seem likely that a man of so lofty and heroic a character was ever seriously troubled with ignominious temptations.
• But these prejudices persisted with respect to some sexual diseases that were still considered ignominious and chiefly with respect to diseases of the mind.

Similar words containing IGNOMINIOU without suffix s

ignominiously19 ignominiousness18 ignominiousnesses20

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