ignominious是什么意思

双语用例

• The prospect of ignominious failure must haunt them continually.

• Not surprisingly, many hawkers of information took their trade with them when they set out for the new world where some met an ignominious end.

• This resulted in a hasty, ignominious retreat.

• It suits them to forget the postmen's strike and the contemptuous way in which they ground the postmen into ignominious defeat.

• His character was largely destroyed by the report and his career as a distinguished voluntary public servant was brought to an ignominious end.

• There is something frightfully ignominious about the frame of mind from which this sort of explanation springs.

• These are issues which should determine whether we are a partnership, or something a good deal more ignominious.

• Yet the people to be called in to make farming pay are the very people who have already met with the most ignominious failure.