ignominy

How To Use ignominy In A Sentence

• Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• And, I might add, the ignominy of being caught evading customs duty on several lakhs worth of luxury goods.
• The index also reflects fears that other large funds will suffer the same ignominy as Bear's.
• He stuck their faces on giant billboard ads across the country, only to suffer the ignominy of their returns languishing at the bottom of the performance tables. Times, Sunday Times
• Bargain whistles no longer come under a cloud of shame and ignominy. Times, Sunday Times
• I missed and suffered the ignominy of being bowled behind my legs for a golden duck. Times, Sunday Times
• English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them.
• It can be fully present in failure, disgrace and ignominy.
• While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy.
• Mother and daughter must make good matches or face poverty and ignominy as their long visits to relations strain the bounds of hospitality. Times, Sunday Times