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- ignominious (adj.)
- disgraceful, shameful, contemptible
- Etymology:
- from Latin ignominia "loss of a (good) name"
- in- "not, opposite of"
- nomen "name"
- Examples (copy #1):
1. Crucifixion was an ancient mode of capital punishment considered especially ignominious to the Romans.
2. "I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously." -- Nina Bawden
Now, create your own sentence (with an introductory phrase or clause).
HW: None
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