How to Use ignominious in a Sentence

ignominious

adjective

• The city also has the ignominious status as one of the poorest in the country.
  — Vince Guerrieri, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 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 Wizards hold the ignominious record of six in a row scuttled.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2021
• Casey joins an ignominious list of the best coaches to ever be fired.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 11 May 2018
• For the legendary trainer, this will be a comedown of the most ignominious stripe.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• The hangar shouldn’t have suffered such an ignominious end.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Adie’s body was hastily buried along the shores of the country of Fife, in an ignominious spot.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
• On the other hand, the places aren’t ignominious dives, either.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• Exposing some of the more ignominious chapters of the past can be a fraught enterprise.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2022
• The coronavirus is the runaway winner of this ignominious award.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Egregious as these mistakes were, far more ignominious was the response to them.
  — Varad Mehta, National Review, 15 Dec. 2017
• The last Power 5 school to achieve that ignominious feat was ...
  — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 24 Sep. 2022
• 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
• That was ignominious, but what came next for Saddam was far worse.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 9 Apr. 2017
• 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
• 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
• The United States has a long and ignominious history of using the weapons.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• But added together, there are enough to put the Orioles on an ignominious pace.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 30 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• Hugh Freeze returns to Oxford as a head coach for the first time since his ignominious exit.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 31 Oct. 2021
• Every week, the same ignominious bundle of herbs looks back at me from its shelf in the refrigerator.
  — Alex Van Buren, Health.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Her acknowledgment of guilt marks an ignominious end to a decades-long career.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• But all bets are off if Bloom presides over an ignominious last-place finish.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 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
• Rhyming tabloid headlines are less ignominious than this sequence.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• Chiefs coach Andy Reid no longer carries around the heavy and ignominious tag of best coach never to win a championship.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2020
• Tennessee took a second loss — and in ignominious fashion — to drop from the ranks of playoff contenders.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2022
• These are ten of the most unpleasant, ignominious, and terrifying ways to go.
  — Peter Stark, Outside Online, 25 June 2013

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