(a.) Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
(a.) Deserving ignominy; despicable.
(a.) Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(2) Ignominy On the radio, he spoke of his intention "to resist by all means, at the cost of my life: to leave to the ignominy of history the lesson of those who have force but not reason."
(3) Tesco's ignominious exit from the US will grab all the headlines but the truth is that even without the Fresh & Easy debacle the supermarket would probably still have seen its profits fall for the first time in 20 years.
(4) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(5) I see the possibility of terminal, and potentially ignominious decline."
(6) The conservative New Democracy party – the dominant force in a coalition lead by the outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras – suffered ignominious defeat, collapsing to 76 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
(7) For months, Nick Clegg has been itching to take aim at what he regards as the Conservatives' dangerous approach to the EU, which could set Britain on the path to an ignominious exit.
(8) Instead they lost 2-1 to tiny Iceland , in another ignominious exit from Europe.
(9) This time, he has a place.” ’88, ’08 and right now Biden’s first presidential run, in 1988, ended ignominiously.
(10) Yet this ignominious retreat became enshrined as a glorious victory; the guts of survivors made it a founding myth.
(11) He now joins an ignominious list of individuals stripped of their honours, including Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, and Anthony Blunt, who spied for Russia.
(12) Friday’s dramatic judgement brings an abrupt and ignominious end to Park’s four years in office – the most dramatic development yet in a scandal that has gripped and horrified South Koreans in equal measure.
(13) The strange thing, perhaps, is that Roy Hodgson spent the day in Paris but chose not to make a personal check on the team who will be trying to inflict ignominy upon England in Nice on Monday.
(14) What can we infer from Lidl's foray into everyday British life – that something once a source of ignominy has become normalised?
(15) With one ignominious intervention, the window has now been moved, and various anti-Muslim bigots can say: “Well Donald Trump has gone too far, but here’s what I would say instead.” They suddenly become the more moderate alternatives where once they would have been seen as themselves extreme.
(16) Which is basically what I'd have been doing if I wasn't in the show... Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love...
(17) But some commentators have made comparisons with the ignominious departure of Angus Deayton, longtime chair of the topical quiz Have I Got News For You .
(18) Much of the capital of Anbar province, the scene of an ignominious defeat of the Iraqi military by Islamic State in May and now largely won back after a gruelling offensive backed by 600 US-led coalition airstrikes, is in ruins.
(19) The Sounders choked on the run-in and despite Clint Dempsey finally scoring in the last game of the regular season, it wasn’t enough to overhaul LA for third place in the West, and avoid the ignominy of the wild card game.
(20) The wonderful Scottish writer John Burnside, in his book I Put a Spell on You , makes an apt comment that the hit song "Don't leave me this way" is a pathetically ignominious response to a departing lover.
Stigmatize
Definition:
(v. t.) To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
(v. t.) To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should infected people be sought when there is no treatment and when a positive test result may lead to anxiety, stigmatization, and discrimination?
(2) Feelings of stigmatization and the affection by the disease loose weight as disturbing factors with increasing age and knowledge.
(3) By illuminating both the prejudical content of medical theories as well as the emancipatory actions of lesbian and gay communities to change stigmatizing diagnostic and treatment situations, the authors attempt to demystify ideologies about lesbians that motivate clinicians, administrators, educators, researchers, and theorists in the delivery of health services.
(4) Indication for the radiotherapy were mostly cosmetic reasons in stigmatizing tumors, but also in several cases pain, oedema or functional deficits as a result of the tumor lesions.
(5) With emphasis on individual therapeutic treatment, this paper provides a critical introduction to the concept and discusses the applicability of this therapeutic approach for extremely lower-lower class patients: patients doubly stigmatized by psychological illness and criminality who are treated in a forensic-psychiatric clinic.
(6) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
(7) The phenomenon of stigmatization emerged as experiences of rejection and protection in social interactions.
(8) The description included behavioral traits of mild temperament, absence of heterosexual interests, and concern about social stigmatization.
(9) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.
(10) A case showing some features of religious stigmatization is described.
(11) According to this electric theoretical framework, stigmatization, decreased social interaction, and loss of control over the environment are all negatively correlated with self-esteem.
(12) The results indicated that competent and physically nonstigmatized children were rated more favorably than incompetent and physically stigmatized children.
(13) Areas of psychosomatic involvement, and the influence of social support and stigmatization on presentation and response, are also discussed.
(14) It not only stigmatizes the mentally ill – who are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it – but glosses over the role that misogyny and gun culture play (and just how foreseeable violence like this is) in a sexist society.
(15) The lack of childcare facilities and public stigmatization of women with addiction problems were commonly encountered problems.
(16) Information on demographic and illness variables that might predict feelings of being stigmatized were obtained.
(17) However, previous experience with genetic screening programs, including those for phenylketonuria and sickle cell disease, have revealed complex problems including error, confusion, and stigmatization.
(18) Raised levels of atmospheric water cause a variety of responses in self-pollen, ranging from tube growth through the pistil to the ovary, to tubes inhibited at the stigmatic surface, accompanied by the formation of callose.
(19) These results are not readily explained by stigmatization of frank obesity, and other mechanisms, possibly genetic, may be responsible.
(20) children with cleft lip and palate suffer from social stigmatization and specific disorders of self-evaluation.