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ignominious

[ig-nuh-min-ee-uhs] / ˌɪg nəˈmɪn i əs /




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

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

The ignominious honor for highest sugar level goes to the large caramel crème frozen coffee, which features a whopping 172 grams, 160 of them non-naturally-occurring sweeteners.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2026

Zahawi called his mistakes careless, but it brought his ministerial career to an ignominious end.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 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

It’s an absurd as well as an ignominious position.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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