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as in notorious
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
But that romance — which was beloved by millions of fans — had an ignominious start.
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Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
Price’s candidacy marks a swift return into the political arena for the longtime civil rights attorney, after her first stint ended in ignominious fashion.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
That ignominious milestone, eclipsing a 13-day rift with DirecTV last fall, is once again threatening marquee sports.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
The protest attracts just two recruits, and Kaupinis, who interviewed the real-life strikers, goes a different way, probing in an intimate drama the often across-the-tracks human connection and self re-discovery found in collective action, however rapidly ignominious its outcome in this case.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
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Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
Price’s candidacy marks a swift return into the political arena for the longtime civil rights attorney, after her first stint ended in ignominious fashion.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
That ignominious milestone, eclipsing a 13-day rift with DirecTV last fall, is once again threatening marquee sports.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
The protest attracts just two recruits, and Kaupinis, who interviewed the real-life strikers, goes a different way, probing in an intimate drama the often across-the-tracks human connection and self re-discovery found in collective action, however rapidly ignominious its outcome in this case.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ignominious
Adjective
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In order to secure a spot as a potential site, a place meets a list of demands from an organization that is notorious about insisting on particulars from the size of the hotel beds, down to the dimensions of the soap in the bathroom.—
Mac Engel
February 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2026
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Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in person to a Republican congressional investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, apparently ending their defiant campaign of resistance.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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How heartbreaking, and how vile, that any adult claiming compassion would seek to imbue a child with that extreme allergy to their own self.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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The Diary again casts its eye far and wide for news, any news, that might distract us all from the vile toxicity emanating from Washington—make that Davos.—
Chop Choppish Shop,
Air Mail,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Tisch, a scion of a powerful New York family that founded the Loews Corporation, has acknowledged knowing Epstein but denied ever going to his infamous Caribbean island.—
Philip Marcelo,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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The game will mark a rematch of Super Bowl XLIX and the infamous late-game interception Russell Wilson threw on the goal line.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Microsoft took months to fix Remote Desktop disconnection issues, then shipped a Windows Update that wiped out Copilot, and released updates that duplicated the Task Manager and created a nasty system recovery bug.—
Tom Warren,
The Verge,
29 Jan. 2026
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Those might have increased here because of weak data, like the nasty drop in consumer confidence yesterday, or because of the expectation a new Fed chair will be more dovish.—
Kelly Evans,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The sheriff said investigators are not ruling out foul play and noted that the circumstances were serious enough to involve the department’s criminal investigation unit.—
Bradford Betz , Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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The findings do not determine civil or criminal responsibility.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Use of dirty plastic directly To optimize the structure for real-world use, the team utilized computer simulations to identify a design with a high stiffness-to-weight ratio.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Feb. 2026
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The trucks hauling the snow frolicked in the water, sending dirty gray ripples toward me.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In a world where most sports have a shady underbelly and the fixes often are in one way or another, no one is ever going to tell you that boxing of all competitions is an avarice or sticky-fingers-free zone.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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When Leo breaks his leg and Pia is allowed into the wider world to take over his shady delivery business, Pia begins to ask questions about her family’s past and the secrets her father may be hiding.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Here, however, Makowsky examines a purely ignoble figure who feels entitled without accomplishing a thing.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Jets recently saw their local deliveries plummet to an ignoble 4.5 rating, which translates to a meager 350,530 Gang Green households tuning in to WBCS-2.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Ignominious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignominious. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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