Adjective : an ignominious retreat. From Dictionary.com.
But in reverse, he lost the title ignominiously to Ukraine's Vitali Klistchko in September. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is survived by an ignominiously diminished form of itself. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, cruel words: English. It's dead to me.] Reference
Thomas blushed to recall how ignominiously he himself had capitulated. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
If we are found together, you will be ignominiously expelled and I severely punished. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
We may die; die colonists; die slaves; die, it may be ignominiously and on the scaffold. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
"Aunt Rachel!" said the girl, as she suffered herself thus ignominiously to be towed away. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
But it had gone hardly ten yards before it collapsed and ignominiously crashed to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
So the grand coup had failed, ignominiously failed, and through what appeared a trivial accident. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Butter by the ton had ignominiously ended its days by merely adding so much more fat to the fire. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
It felt like a South African courtroom during apartheid when a show trial collapsed ignominiously. From Wordnik.com. [A Victory--And A New War] Reference
As it was, he was routed, completely and ignominiously, leaving the girls to laugh at his discomfiture. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
Not merely failed but failed ignominiously because he had chosen to write not a great novel but a big best seller. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference
Immediately the painting was jerked from the walls of the museum and ignominiously relegated to a basement storeroom. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
I shall never forget his expression of contempt and scorn as he saw the young men ignominiously hoisted into the saddle. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
Nemo rushed, barking, after the flock, only to be butted ignominiously head over heels and to retreat, yelping, to the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Sir George Prevost, who proved himself a most irresolute and incapable commander-in-chief, retreated ignominiously from Sackett's. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
After destroying the papers, they elected to ride on and run the gantlet, rather than be captured as spies and shot ignominiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
His followers closed in upon him so impetuously that he was borne down under their charge and fell ignominiously out on the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Hence they were accused of a desire to establish a monarchy in the United States, and were ignominiously called the British party. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Down fell his good sword Excalibur, down fell his shield, and he found himself ignominiously helpless in the presence of his enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
Who would have thought that the industry would soon arise from the nadir that saw the last General Motors EV1s ignominiously crushed?. From Wordnik.com. ['Revenge Of The Electric Car'] Reference
England is drawn as ignominiously lying on the ground (when she isn't running away) and Germany invariably is kicking or thrashing her. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
But Megawati is not about to toss her life-long friend out of the palace as ignominiously as she was 34 years ago-at least not just yet. From Wordnik.com. [After The Ouster] Reference
Every measure, however imperative, of the opposition, ignominiously fails -- every measure of the Government, however infamous, succeeds. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Thus obscurely, painfully, and almost ignominiously, closed the career of the most brilliant, ambitious, and powerful monarch of his time. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
By all accounts Suharto and his family pocketed dizzying riches during his 32-year reign, but he was deeply loathed and ousted ignominiously. From Wordnik.com. [Broken By The Iron Fist] Reference
"I trespassed on to the Far End property to-day, and was ignominiously ordered off by a rather aggressive person, who, I suppose, is Mr. Trent's servant.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
United States Arsenal at Baton Rouge was captured by New Orleans militia, its garrison ignominiously sent off, and the contents of the arsenal distributed. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
With fundraising lagging, and few impressed by his speeches, Wilson was ignominiously forced to abandon his presidential campaign long before the primaries began. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Harsh Realm: The Legacy That Meg Whitman Invokes] Reference
Once I was given by a father as a "tip" or present to his little boy; when, I need scarcely add, I found myself ignominiously spent in hard-bake ten minutes afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
He was soon restored to his family and to his position in the State, for the usurper after one or two feeble attempts to retain his power ignominiously fled from the country. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
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