ignominious
Example Sentences
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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.
It also prevented what would have been one of the most ignominious collapses in program history, given the stage and the stakes.
From Washington Post
Could the sudden and ignominious end of his Chelsea days change it again?
From Washington Post
The war ended with an ignominious military withdrawal in February 1989.
From BBC
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