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

esteem
honor

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