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Definition of "ignominiously" []

  • In an ignominious manner (adverb)

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Use "ignominiously" in a sentence
  • "But in reverse, he lost the title ignominiously to Ukraine's Vitali Klistchko in September."
  • "The Marchese would have cast him into a dungeon; but, at the earnest request of his rival, he was not detained, but thrust ignominiously from the villa."
  • "It was a terrible thing to contemplate: the wreck of her son's happiness, the Prussian disgraced and driven from their doors, the wife, too, thrust forth upon the street and her name ignominiously placarded on the walls, as had been threatened would be done with any woman who should dishonor herself with a"