Ignominious

a.	1.	Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful. Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious. - Milton.
	2.	Deserving ignominy; despicable. One single, obscure, ignominious projector. - Swift.
	3.	Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.

Adj.

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ignominious - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" Synonyms: inglorious, shameful, opprobrious, disgraceful, black

aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, criminal, delinquent, derogatory, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, evil, hardly the thing, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, inglorious, not done, not the thing, notorious, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, sacrilegious, scandalous, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shoddy, sinful, terrible, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unrighteous, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong, wrongful

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