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ignominious Meaning in Tamil ( ignominious வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Adjective:

அவமானம் உண்டாக்குகிற, பழிப்புஉண்டாக்குகிற,



ignominious's Usage Examples:

The expedition was an ignominious failure, and many burghers did not hesitate to assign their non-success to the fact that Burgers's views on religious questions were not sound.


The Neapolitans were ignominiously beaten in May and retired to the frontier; on the 1st of June Oudinot declared that he would attack Rome on the 4th, but by beginning operations on the 3rd, when no attack was expected, he captured an important position in the Pamphili gardens.


Phips, who had succeeded in an attack on Port Royal, had ignominiously failed when he led the Massachusetts fleet against Quebec in 1690; and the later expedition of 1711 was no less a failure.


Such was his unlimited mastery over Greek public opinion at that time, that at a nod from him the Royal family would have been expelled ignominiously.


On assuming power in 1432, Sigismondo was already affianced to the daughter of Count Carmagnola; but when that famous leader was arraigned as a traitor by the Venetians, and ignominiously put to death, he promptly withdrew from his engagement, under the pretext that it was impossible to marry the child of a criminal.


Another attempt by Adam Newton, guardian of the Friars Minorite at Berwick, had a more ignominious result.


The position of the Franks in the Holy Land was not improved by the attack on Damascus; while the ignominious failure of a Crusade led by two kings brought the whole crusading movement into discredit in western Europe, and it was utterly in vain that Suger and St Bernard attempted to gather a fresh Crusade in 1150.


The worst sacrilege of all, defiling the Host, is mentioned frequently, and generally brought the death penalty accompanied by the cruellest and most ignominious tortures.


While I was petrified beyond anything I could imagine I knew Molly would die ignominiously without all the cunning I could muster.


Thus did a Welshman revenge the ignominious deaths of Prince Llewelyn and Prince David by becoming two centuries later king of England and prince of Wales.


Henry was an undutiful son, and his reign was one long period of confusion, marked by incidents of the most ignominious kind.





Synonyms:

opprobrious, disgraceful, black, dishonourable, dishonorable, inglorious, shameful,



Antonyms:

sincere, glorious, known, moral, honorable,

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