Example sentences for: ignominy

How can you use “ignominy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Another group of names falls into the either-or category, in which a well-researched onomastic history could consign a family to either comforting averageness or ignominy.

  • "During that time, from May last year up to the present, Indonesia has seen its fortunes and its international reputation sink lower and lower into the depths of ignominy."

  • The message is that there's no escape from the ignominy, not even through the (often lame) one-liners he employs to win them over.

  • The foregoing is merely a sampling and by no means constitutes the full documentation of Skeat's clawing back from the brink of ignominy at having pinched another's work.

  • Though he used to pride himself on never being quoted in the press, he now scurries to return calls from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Investor's Business Daily . Morris gets much more out of the transaction, in terms of selling copies of his book and putting ignominy behind him, than the readers of the papers that quote him do.


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