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Definition of ignominy : 1. An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
2. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

Synonyms:

evil, bad odor, smear campaign, loss of face, disesteem, under a cloud, slander, injury, shame, disgrace, odium, ill repute, bad name, respect, pity, a stain on someone's character/reputation etc., meanness, character assassination, discredit, opprobrium, obloquy, reproach, infamy, smear

contemptuousness, impertinence, barbarity, uncivility, disrespectfulness, caddishness, brashness, indignity, discourtesy, impoliteness

depravity, colloquialism, brutishness, rudeness, coarseness, gracelessness, brazenness, gaudiness, outlandishness, rankness, offensiveness, saltiness, earthiness, vernacular, garishness, grossness, boorishness, baseness, commonness, repulsiveness, roughness, crassness, profanity, tawdriness, indelicacy, vulgarity, shamelessness, sleaze, tactlessness, clumsiness, inelegance, tastelessness, rawness, lowness, barbarism, broadness, crudeness, animality

disrepute, dishonor, mortification, humiliation

Usage examples:

• He felt less ignominious in the hour of his public ignominy than in all these months of secret shame. - "Peccavi", E. W. Hornung.
• Christ crucified is voluntarily devoted and accursed'; he even speaks of 'the precise amount of ignominy and pain needed for the redemption, ' and says that the 'divine victim' paid more than was absolutely necessary." - "Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries", Annie Besant.
• So it was that the boy was tossed to public eminence on a day when Starling Tucker, accomplished horseman, descended into the vale of ignominy by means of the Mansion House's new motor bus. - "The Wrong Twin", Harry Leon Wilson.