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ignominy
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synonyms: opprobrium, infamy, reproach, inverecundlessness ???
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Definition:1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.2. An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“If you don’t sit still, you must be tied down,” said Bessie. “Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly.”
Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature. This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre
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Father: Yes Kate, I want you to become a prostitute.
Kate: Father!
Father: Do you defy me?
Kate: But indeed, I do. For it is better to die poor than to live in shame and ignominy.
Father: No, it isn't.
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Bells
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For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy form the post he has held
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World, p.100 (1932)
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if the person accused makes his innocence plainly to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an ignominious death;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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I am the outside woman. It’s my job to provide what is otherwise lacking. Even the Scrabble. It’s an absurd as well as an ignominious position.
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale (1986)
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I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small of the back, and having my face ignominiously shoved against the kitchen wall,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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They put him down among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him. But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen. For at bottom— so he told me— he was actuated by a profound desire to learn among the Christians,
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us."
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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I shall deny you hereafter admission into this house, and give notice now that I require your instant departure. Three minutes’ delay will render it involuntary and ignominious.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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the result was the ignominious capture of Racksole. In vain Theodore expostulated, explained, anathematized.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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Lacking both ability and interest, the pony had come to a dead stop at the fence, tossing young Hamish over his head, over the fence, and ignominiously into a nettle patch on the other side.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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both Perrault and Francois bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer cold.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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Mary Anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole, and was brought out, to our great amazement, by a piquet of his companions in arms, who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front-garden with ignominy.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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