Heavy losses or, at best, inadequate returns on capital invested have resulted in ignominious withdrawals from the market.
No other party risked ignominious defeat.
Pretty ignominious sort of territorial pawn at that.
So, a sort of ignominious continuation - Elvis Costello's thirty-third album!
That it was erected, operated for a short while and then reverted to ignominious dereliction are all true.
The principle of propulsion by Flettner rotors suffers still from their ignominious fate.
They would wipe out the shame of their ignominious defeat!
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►ignominious defeat/failure/retreat etc►ignominious end
an ignominious end to his career
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN►defeat
· They would wipe out the shame of their ignominious defeat!· No other party risked ignominious defeat.· The anniversary of his coronation seemed destined to be marked by ignominious defeat.· Saints managed a brief recovery to 18-12 before falling away to ignominious defeat.
making you feel ashamed or embarrassedSYN humiliatingignominious defeat/failure/retreat etc an ignominious end to his career—ignominiously adverb