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Definition of ignominious : 1. Deserving ignominy; despicable.
2. Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
3. Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.

Synonyms:

fateful, dishonorable, dim, blackened, smuggled, abusive, grim, black, dishonourable, mordant, mean, opprobrious, scurrilous, pitch-black, smutty, calamitous, pitch-dark, shocking, respect, inglorious, black-market, fatal, bleak, sinister, disgraceful, discreditable, dark, bootleg, disreputable, shameful, disastrous, embarrassing, contraband

despicable, rotten, vile, nasty, contemptible

earthy, crude, scandalous, profane, cheap, degraded, obscene, gaudy, common, depraved, barnyard, salty, gross, unpolished, tactless, sordid, revolting, low, homespun, animal, outlandish, colloquial, sleazy, unbecoming, base, rank, boorish, ignoble, undignified, rude, cockney, repulsive, raw, crass, glaring, tasteless, coarse, inelegant, ill-bred, tawdry, unrefined, barbaric, brazen, shameless, graceless, clumsy, unseemly, indelicate, in bad taste, chintzy, coarse-grained, rough, philistine, brutish, offensive, vulgar, idiomatic, garish, broad

Usage examples:

• It still felt odd, though, having her rescued from what had to be an inevitable, ignominious fate. - "Syndrome", Thomas Hoover.
• They employed the two hours thus granted in making an ignominious escape. - "The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume II.(of III) 1566-74", John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: January 25, 2009.
• He did not look as the boy believed a man should look who has just been condemned to die the ignominious death of hanging. - "The Gringos", B. M. Bower.