ignominiously
part of speech
adverb (ignominiously)
meaning for a pupil
In a way that causes great shame or embarrassment in front of others; humiliatingly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In The Wind in the Willows Toad is often dumped ignominiously: thrown into the river by the barge-woman, falling into the mud, and finally hurled out of things he had boasted about. Stories use the word when a proud character suffers an embarrassing fall. Sports reports: «The team were ignominiously knocked out by a small club.»
examples
- The barge-woman threw Toad ignominiously into the canal. tree →
- The proud champion was ignominiously beaten in the first round. tree →
- The thief was ignominiously caught with his hand in the cake tin. tree →
- The villain fled ignominiously. tree →
- Our big plan ended ignominiously when the tent fell down. tree →
- The bully slipped ignominiously in the mud. tree →
- But when he saw that his bride and Prince Ivan were being escorted home together, he turned back again ignominiously. tree →
note
Long word: ig-no-MIN-ee-us-lee. From «ignominy» (public shame) → ignominious (adjective) → ignominiously (adverb).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «ignominiously» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.