ignominiousness

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• The ignominious outcome of David’s tenure at the Human Rights Campaign comes after two years with him at the helm of the organization.

• Images of the ignominious withdrawal flip through their minds like a slide deck.

• To be sure, the Rohingya crisis was an ignominious episode for her but it is not as though the West did anything for the Rohingya either, beyond issuing condemnations.

• A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past.

• It was two years after the ignominious end of the Vietnam War and three years after Watergate.

• International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's ignominious downfall was more than a personal call to account.

• Mike Castle deserved better than this ugly, ignominious end.

• Zidane is famous for providing both the greatest and the most ignominious moments in French World Cup history.

• I betray my beloved parent's confidence, to save you from a certain and ignominious death.

• Tom pitched forward heavily, saving himself and his animal from an ignominious accident just in the nick of time.

• To be checkmated by an 'errant' pawn in the very middle of the board is a most ignominious way of losing the game.

• The ignominious failure of the attacks on Somers and Burnet seemed to prove that the assembly was coming round to a better temper.

• But, as his rhyme ended with such an ignominious fizzle, he hurried away with a snort of disgust.