ignominious

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}]
    

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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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "ignominious":
      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