ignominious

Example Sentences

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Tesla stock is trying to stop an ignominious streak on Friday.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Every year, Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern invite listeners to nominate the Supreme Court’s most egregious behavior, then choose their own “worst of the worst” to memorialize the most ignominious moments.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

Despite the ignominious end to his career, Diggs spent many years as a stellar legislator who became, as his biographer Marion Orr writes, “the most powerful Black politician on Capitol Hill.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The number of whales getting tangled up in fishing nets, line, buoys and other miscellaneous rope off the coasts of the United States hit a record high in 2024, with California taking the ignominious lead.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025

The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl—she looked thirteen or upwards.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë