ignominious
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"Ignominious", "catastrophic" and "humiliating" were among the words used by Conservative MPs to describe the UK and the West's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
From BBC • Aug. 18, 2021
Ignominious endings to shows and movies have a way of mind-wiping the details that are legitimately meaningful.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2021
Therefore the penal code—which much prefers intelligence to muscular vigor—has made, of the four varieties mentioned above, a second category, liable only to correctional, not to Ignominious, punishments.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Ignominious perhaps, but safe, and safety counts for something in this world; anyway, for the poor craven souls.
From We of the Never-Never by Gunn, Jeannie
Do you not catch a tone of wonder and a tone of triumph in this threefold particularising of the humanity, the lowly residence, and the Ignominious death?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander
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