[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ignominious \ig`nomin"ious\, a. l. ignominiosus: cf. f.
   ignominieux.
   1. marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace;
      dishonorable; shameful.
      1913 webster

            then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
            fled ignominious.                     --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. deserving ignominy; despicable.
      1913 webster

            one single, obscure, ignominious projector. --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or
      sentence. --macaulay.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ignominious
     adj : used of conduct or character deserving or bringing
           disgrace or shame; "man...has written one of his
           blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic
           islands"- rachel carson; "an ignominious retreat";
           "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human
           greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" syn: black,
            disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
see also:
black disgraceful inglorious opprobrious shameful 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

52 moby thesaurus words for "ignominious":
   aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, criminal, delinquent,
   derogatory, deviant, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable,
   disreputable, evil, hardly the thing, ignoble, illegal, improper,
   inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, inglorious,
   not done, not the thing, notorious, off-base, off-color,
   out-of-line, sacrilegious, scandalous, seamy, shabby, shady,
   shameful, shameless, shoddy, sinful, sordid, terrible, undue,
   unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable,
   unrighteous, unsavory, unseemly, unsuitable, wicked, wrong,
   wrongful

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