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ignominy

[ig-nuh-min-ee, ig-nom-uh-nee] / ˈɪg nəˌmɪn i, ɪgˈnɒm ə ni /
NOUN
offensive behavior
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Ignominy on Two Wheels The secret can be traced to a few tottering rides in Lower Manhattan, with a father and his boy and the afternoons that eventually dissolved their patience.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2012

Ignominy of Being Grown-Up      V.  Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy "Christmas and the Spirit of Democracy" appeared originally in Everybody's Magazine, the four other essays in the Atlantic Monthly.

From By the Christmas Fire by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Humane, are those Punishments that be inflicted by the Commandement of Man; and are either Corporall, or Pecuniary, or Ignominy, or Imprisonment, or Exile, or mixt of these.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Ignominy, banishment, or likely enough death for the truth!

From The Chocolate Soldier Heroism—The Lost Chord of Christianity by Studd, C. T.

And I fly to Thee from Ignominy in this World and the next, and I implore Thy Pardon for the Present and for the Future.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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