How to Use ignominious in a Sentence

ignominious

adjective
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  • The Wizards hold the ignominious record of six in a row scuttled.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The city also has the ignominious status as one of the poorest in the country.
    — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Adie’s body was hastily buried along the shores of the country of Fife, in an ignominious spot.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • His soundtrack for the ignominious walk back to the dugout was an encore of boos.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2017
  • The par-5 18th hole brought a most ignominious ending when Bland’s third shot plunked into the pond fronting the green.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2021
  • The damage to the Nord Stream pipelines may spell an ignominious end for the 25-year project, at least for the near future.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The last Power 5 school to achieve that ignominious feat was ...
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The Avalanche now has pulled off the especially ignominious feat of being the worst team in the league, hands down, while at the cap.
    — Terry Frei, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017
  • For the legendary trainer, this will be a comedown of the most ignominious stripe.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • On the other hand, the places aren’t ignominious dives, either.
    — Joe Leydon, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Casey joins an ignominious list of the best coaches to ever be fired.
    — Chris Chase, For The Win, 11 May 2018
  • The Lions are 0-2 and had an ignominious start to the season in which they were pulverized by the Jets.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • For much of the season, the Spurs have endured the ignominious distinction of being one of the worst free-throw shooting teams in the NBA.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the specter of that ignominious effort looms over the Hawks, who moved beyond the loss but haven’t forgotten it.
    — Jimmy Greenfield, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The hangar shouldn’t have suffered such an ignominious end.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The attack marked the most gruesome and ignominious moment yet in the endgame of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan.
    — Brian Bennett, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The United States has a long and ignominious history of using the weapons.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • From its inception in 2001 to its ignominious end, the U.S. war in Afghanistan has been defined by lies.
    — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2021
  • If the section head boss doesn’t think much of you, your firm or your offer, then the deal dies a quiet ignominious death right there.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • But after a quick reference to the fallen, and to the ignominious end of two decades of war, the first of the six boxing matches started.
    — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Yet, the emerging railroad town beat the state capital in an ignominious race, the first to have a bank robbery.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • The ruling came to be regarded as one of the most ignominious in the Supreme Court’s history.
    — Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The latest contradiction is the case of the ignominious slave market in Libya.... Most of Africa ... has become the mouth of a shark....
    — Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Hugh Freeze returns to Oxford as a head coach for the first time since his ignominious exit.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2021
  • That was ignominious, but what came next for Saddam was far worse.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2017
  • The ignominious milestone comes during a year that has already seen more flames than ever in the state.
    — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • An ignominious ending loomed for a proud coach who has spent 36 years in the profession viewing the glass half-full.
    — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • That average inched up to 6.3 points per first half (38 first-half points in the past six games), but that number is ignominious.
    — Steve Svekis, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The idea that our country would not have suffered an ignominious defeat if only the military had been given endless resources and not been stabbed in the back is as old as history.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 July 2024
  • The pressures of the office and his clear decline from aging demand that Democrats find a place-holder among their supply of capable future candidates to save Biden from an ignominious defeat.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2024

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