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词汇 ignominy
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Definition of ignominy in English:

ignominy

noun ˈɪɡnəmɪni
mass noun
  • Public shame or disgrace.

    耻辱,丢脸

    the ignominy of being imprisoned

    坐牢的耻辱。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Imagine the shame, the ignominy, the dire social consequences.
    • It can be fully present in failure, disgrace and ignominy.
    • English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
    • The final ignominy for United happened just a minute later.
    • It's a battle of dignity against ignominy, a battle for the rights of the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America.
    • But if you really must chew, a few ground rules should keep you this side of social ignominy.
    • The victims must know who heaped mountain upon mountain of injustice, ignominy and humiliation upon them.
    • I'll wait for the post-election post-mortem and watch some pollster shrivel away in ignominy.
    • That should be enough to pile ignominy upon him.
    • All this ignominy heaped on us and we are still unrepentant?
    • Barrie himself was childless, his own joyless marriage to Mary Ansell, a beautiful actress, ending in public ignominy when his wife had an affair.
    • If defaulters don't come forward, they will face charges and the public ignominy of being named.
    • The greatest ignominy of that afternoon was when Mayo brought their sub-goalkeeper on as a forward for the closing five minutes.
    • But he has gone quietly knowing that he will get a nice cushion of more than a million pounds compensation to soften any ignominy.
    • The ignominy of under-achievement is lessened by the cash saved.
    • On stage, he pulls knowing faces, as if his rise from boy-band ignominy to rock superstar is a joke in which audiences are complicit.
    • Our hockey boys seem to be collapsing in ignominy, though.
    • I am curious more about our women weightlifters returning from Athens in shame and ignominy.
    • For a man who won the Open and then the US Open the following year to now suffer this ignominy is a disgrace to the game of golf.
    • However, Commercial Street has been saved this ignominy as it is small and there is hardly any space for vehicles and pedestrians to move.
    Synonyms
    shame, humiliation, embarrassment, mortification
    disgrace, dishonour, stigma, disrepute, discredit, degradation, abasement, opprobrium, obloquy, scandal, infamy, indignity, ignobility, loss of face

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French ignominie or Latin ignominia, from in- 'not' + a variant of nomen 'name'.

Definition of ignominy in US English:

ignominy

noun
  • Public shame or disgrace.

    耻辱,丢脸

    the ignominy of being imprisoned

    坐牢的耻辱。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All this ignominy heaped on us and we are still unrepentant?
    • If defaulters don't come forward, they will face charges and the public ignominy of being named.
    • Barrie himself was childless, his own joyless marriage to Mary Ansell, a beautiful actress, ending in public ignominy when his wife had an affair.
    • The victims must know who heaped mountain upon mountain of injustice, ignominy and humiliation upon them.
    • English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
    • But he has gone quietly knowing that he will get a nice cushion of more than a million pounds compensation to soften any ignominy.
    • But if you really must chew, a few ground rules should keep you this side of social ignominy.
    • The greatest ignominy of that afternoon was when Mayo brought their sub-goalkeeper on as a forward for the closing five minutes.
    • The ignominy of under-achievement is lessened by the cash saved.
    • Imagine the shame, the ignominy, the dire social consequences.
    • The final ignominy for United happened just a minute later.
    • For a man who won the Open and then the US Open the following year to now suffer this ignominy is a disgrace to the game of golf.
    • I'll wait for the post-election post-mortem and watch some pollster shrivel away in ignominy.
    • I am curious more about our women weightlifters returning from Athens in shame and ignominy.
    • That should be enough to pile ignominy upon him.
    • It's a battle of dignity against ignominy, a battle for the rights of the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America.
    • On stage, he pulls knowing faces, as if his rise from boy-band ignominy to rock superstar is a joke in which audiences are complicit.
    • However, Commercial Street has been saved this ignominy as it is small and there is hardly any space for vehicles and pedestrians to move.
    • It can be fully present in failure, disgrace and ignominy.
    • Our hockey boys seem to be collapsing in ignominy, though.
    Synonyms
    shame, humiliation, embarrassment, mortification

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French ignominie or Latin ignominia, from in- ‘not’ + a variant of nomen ‘name’.

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