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as in infamous
not respectable
some of his friends considered the low-level job to be an ignominious fate for the laid-off executive
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as in vile
not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency
the prison guards degraded themselves with their inhumane, ignominious treatment of the prisoners
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Recent Examples of ignominious
As for her team, the Finals loss was New York’s fifth defeat in five appearances, making the Liberty the holder of two ignominious titles: the franchise with the most Finals appearances without a win and the only original WNBA franchise without a championship.
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Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
This season, the Sox have posted ignominious mark after ignominious mark.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
Only in the last half decade or so, with the ignominious collapse of these projects, has the United States again turned back toward retrenchment, at least for now.
—Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
Graphic contemporary news footage shows Mussolini’s ignominious end, when his abused corpse was publicly flayed by anyone who wanted to take a whack at it.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
This season, the Sox have posted ignominious mark after ignominious mark.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
Only in the last half decade or so, with the ignominious collapse of these projects, has the United States again turned back toward retrenchment, at least for now.
—Erez Manela, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
Graphic contemporary news footage shows Mussolini’s ignominious end, when his abused corpse was publicly flayed by anyone who wanted to take a whack at it.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ignominious
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That infamous 1911 disaster in Greenwich Village took the lives of 146 garment workers—123 of them women, and many, adolescents, some as young as 14.Fiona Alison Duncan, ARTnews.com, 30 Dec. 2024
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Every Newcastle fan of a certain generation remembers Ruud Gullit’s infamous spell as manager and the mutiny that was caused by him dropping Alan Shearer, the local hero, for a derby defeat against Sunderland, early in the 1999-2000 season.Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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But perhaps the better question is, how did a qualified, competent, upstanding candidate like Vice President Kamala Harris lose to such a vile person as Donald Trump?S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2024
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There's been a whole bunch of what-about-ism on social media feeds since a comedian made vile, disgusting and racist comments about Latinos, and Puerto Rico in particular, at a Donald Trump rally.David Plazas, The Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2024
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Snell is notorious for running up his pitch count in starts, often exiting by the fifth or sixth inning.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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The three death row inmates who aren’t included in Biden’s list on Monday include two notorious mass shooters, as well as the person who killed multiple people at the Boston Marathon, The New York Times reported.Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
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At its simplest, while tracking cookies are a nasty underpin to the internet, they can be seen and controlled, whether by those website popups or electing to use some form of private browsing that blocks such cookies altogether.Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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But the only bacteria raw or pasteurized milk contain are the nasty kind—salmonella, campylobacter and the like, according to the FDA.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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There’s also a pretty, shady green space with a fountain that kids love to run through, plus lots of restaurants and food trucks.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2024
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As the protagonist, players have to help a local sushi restaurant and other townspeople resist the shady developers trying to buy up the local property.Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
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From savory breads and rolls for sandwiches and soup-sopping to decadent sweet loaves and rolls for breakfast or dessert, the easy recipes give you a break while your mixer does the dirty work.Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 Dec. 2024
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The Romans liked to give the appearance of civilized rule by getting local thugs to do their dirty work.N.T. Wright, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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The criminal charges in Romania are not the only legal woes facing the Tates.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Georgia case represents the last remaining criminal charges against Trump.Sam Gringlas, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
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Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end.Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024
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Anything can happen, but polling trends increasingly suggest that the presidency of Donald Trump, which has itself seemed like an eternity to many, may be heading to its ignoble end.Christopher R. Hill, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2020
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“Ignominious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignominious. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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