ignominious
Example Sentences
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Tesla stock is trying to stop an ignominious streak on Friday.
From Barron's
Judge, at the plate as the tying run in the bottom of the ninth, struck out to seal the ignominious defeat.
Zahawi called his mistakes careless, but it brought his ministerial career to an ignominious end.
From BBC
He was then fired from that next job in famously ignominious fashion: at LAX airport, at 3 a.m., while the team bus pulled away without him.
After Odd’s ignominious exit from the dinner table, he and Buddy reach a fragile peace back at school, then lose touch.
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