Synonyms for ignominy


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ig-nuh-min-ee, ig-nom-uh-nee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪg nəˌmɪn i, ɪgˈnɒm ə ni


Définition of ignominy

Origin :
  • 1530s, back-formation from ignominious or else from Middle French ignominie (15c.), from Latin ignominia "disgrace, dishonor" (see ignominious). Also sometimes shortened to ignomy.
  • noun offensive behavior
  • noun shame
Example sentences :
  • Is it the frequency of the punishment that has made you callous to the ignominy and the pain?
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 » by Various
  • Was there not enough of ignominy for him to endure without that?
  • Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
  • But are you ready to meet the shame and ignominy of the story?
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • I know well all the ignominy, all the shame; but I know, too, all the misery of the position.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Chauvelin, a man of vigour and capacity, was dismissed with ignominy in 1736.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
  • What care they about sharing his ignominy, provided they share his fortune?
  • Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo
  • But I cannot bear this load of ignominy—I cannot suffer the thought of this crime.
  • Extract from : « The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh » by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Everything seemed so vast, so forbidding, it reduced her to a state of ignominy.
  • Extract from : « Colorado Jim » by George Goodchild
  • The pity of it was driven into his young soul when the ignominy of that defeat was accomplished.
  • Extract from : « Lafayette » by Martha Foote Crow
  • But when she was alone in the world, she felt absolutely crushed by this ignominy.
  • Extract from : « The Son of Monte Christo » by Jules Lermina

Antonyms for ignominy

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