| 词汇 | ignominy |
| 释义 | ignominy noun[ U ] literaryuk /ˈɪɡ.nə.mɪ.ni/ us /ˈɪɡ.nə.mɪ.ni/ public embarrassment: 耻辱，侮辱 The incumbent party experienced the ignominy of total defeat in the last election.执政党在上次选举中蒙受了大败的耻辱。 Synonyms disgrace shame Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignoble ignobly ignominious ignominiously in the doghouseidiom shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something Examples of ignominyignominy I mention the pauper funeral here because its specter motivated members of the working class to avoid its ignominy at whatever cost. The sitar seems to have saved a considerable number of people from the ignominy of scoring nothing in this section. The suspicion regarding the king's religious orientation was sufficiently problematic without the ignominy of the nuns' conspiratorial aid. In virtually every case, however, these blunders were overcome or narrowly rescued from ignominy, and thus transgured into elements of satisfaction and even sublimity. Other writers warned that colonies were no place to escape social ignominy. Ignominy will have powerful deterrent effects, but weak rehabilitative ones. But in recent centuries prestige turned into ignominy as early inhabitants were now perceived by villagers as uncouth savages from an age before proper humans appeared on the scene. It is not the consolidating aspects of the state action doctrine, however, that explains its ignominy but rather the limits that doctrine imposed on remedies against private persons. Greg frequently invokes the common discourse of the legible, permanence of sin that made absolute a fallen woman's destiny along a downward trajectory toward ignominy and death. When moving for a definition we were treated with ignominy, hatred, ridicule and contempt, and we were coerced into silence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One airman was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and discharged with ignominy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, what is the justification for subjecting that person at any stage at all to the ignominy of being debarred from qualification under the scheme? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we to spoil and end this record with a chapter of ignominy tonight? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And she will not go through the difficulty and ignominy of having the matter struck off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We say that the union was a mistake, an ignominy, and a failure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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