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  • adjective Common misspelling of ignominious.

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Examples

  • I’ve started a number of projects during the course of my half century on the planet, and many of them have gone down in ignominous flames.

    2006 November « Becca’s Byline 2006

  • I’ve started a number of projects during the course of my half century on the planet, and many of them have gone down in ignominous flames.

    The End – Or Is It Just the Beginning? 2006

  • In Japan, all of the senior excutives of these bank and financial institutions that are failing would have resigned in ignominous shame by now and several would have probably had the decency to hang themselves.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dave 2009

  • In Japan, all of the senior excutives of these bank and financial institutions that are failing would have resigned in ignominous shame by now and several would have probably had the decency to hang themselves.

    Big Darkness soon come the rev. paperboy 2009

  • In an editorial the next day, the New York Times welcomed “this awakening of national patriotism, this solidarity of opinion,” which had routed “the ignominous pacifism preached so loudly and widely.”

    The meaning of patriotism 2009

  • It's not anyone's fault but her own that she has reigned over one of the most ignominous failures in modern political history.

    Hillary Challenging Obama To Free-Form Debates 2009

  • Think of it: at the close of an ignominous term, Bush can take the high road.

    Nunc Scio » 2008 » December 2008

  • Due to the fact of having complained I have been accused of poisoning the project, of taking away all the fun out of it, of making Debian social environment ignominous, of being unable to work with other people.

    Miriam Ruiz 2008

  • Think of it: at the close of an ignominous term, Bush can take the high road.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Be the bigger man, Bush. 2008

  • Plaques on the sites record details of guerrilla attacks and mark the date of the occupiers '"ignominous departure."

    At The Heart Of The Matter 2007

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