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Six example sentences with ignominious, each labelled with its topic.
The defending champions went out in the first round to a team of rookies, an ignominious end to a fifteen year run.
Basketball
The general returned from the failed campaign to an ignominious welcome: no parade, no honors, and a hearing in the senate.
History
After the accounts were restated twice the chief executive resigned, and the ignominious departure was replayed on business television for a week.
Business
The party lost every seat it held, an ignominious result that ended the leader's career the same night.
Politics
The company that promised to reinvent grocery delivery met an ignominious end, selling its vans to pay the final payroll.
Startups
The journal retracted the paper in an ignominious notice that admitted the key images had been copied and relabeled.
Science
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