ADJ | ignominious | more ignominious | most ignominious | |
SYNO | black | disgraceful | ignominious | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- Siggeir's mother changed into a wolf to help torture his defeated brothers-in-law with slow and ignominious deaths.
- The 1993 AFL Grand Final has the ignominious honour of being the lowest TV ratings of any AFL grand final since TV records have been kept.
- This brought the first chapter of the idea to build a subway system in Belgrade to an ignominious end.
- The Burmese remember that Bandula's death was followed by a series of one ignominious setback after another that eventually led to the loss of sovereignty in 1885.
- After his ignominious flight, Kamran managed to retake Kabul twice but he remained a hated figure to the residents of the city, as his periods of rule involved atrocities against large numbers of them.
- A deeply unpopular figure, he has the ignominious distinction of being the first recorded person to have been lynched "à la lanterne".
- In Ireland, suicide was punished by "ignominious burial" until 1823 (Burial of Suicide Act) and punished by forfeiture of property until 1872 (Forfeiture Act 1870).
- Cain returns to a plot concerning insurance fraud he had employed in his 1936 serial Double Indemnity, but here the story ends in marital bliss rather than in the ignominious deaths of the lovers.
- After his ignominious defeat in Greece, Xerxes returns to Persia, but his plans for his empire are cut short by his assassination in 465 BC.
- Hercules complains about suffering undeservedly, and that he should be doomed to die an ignominious death, especially one arising out of a woman's treachery.
- Despite his ignominious end, for many years Burr was an influential contributor to expanding the geographical and geological knowledge of the emerging colony of South Australia.
- The Blazers also set an ignominious record during a road game against the Indiana Pacers.
- One vessel rescued from this ignominious end was the barque "Polly Woodside", now a museum ship in Melbourne, Australia.
- Younger half-brother of Stephen and Victoria, and lover of Felix; however, their relationship was severed after Felix's ignominious past as a teenage whore was revealed to the court.
- Rodionova suffers the ignominious distinction of being one of just two players in WTA history to be defaulted from a tournament, after hitting a ball towards spectators at the 2007 Western & Southern Open.
- Garry Trudeau did a Sunday color "Doonesbury" comic strip featuring this song, though Georgia was changed to the ignominious "Cranston" in Rhode Island, and an unnamed song/dance group; it was published on July 28, 1974.
- According to GameSpy, "DeathKeep" was "the last "Dungeons & Dragons" game for SSI, and it was a pretty ignominious end for a pretty distinguished run".
- Jacobsen later made two more unsuccessful attempts in Melodi Grand Prix; in 1964, she came fourth with "Hvor" ("Where") while her 1971 entry "India" finished an ignominious last of the 12 songs.
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