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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for ignominious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ignominious
    adj 1: (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,
           ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ignominious \Ig`no*min"i*ous\, a. [L. ignominiosus: cf. F.
   ignominieux.]
   1. Marked with ignominy; incurring public disgrace;
      dishonorable; shameful.
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            Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain,
            Fled ignominious.                     --Milton.
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   2. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
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            One single, obscure, ignominious projector. --Swift.
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   3. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or
      sentence. --Macaulay.
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