ignomously

comparative more ignomously · superlative most ignomously

1. nonstandarduncommonIgnominiously; in a shameful or disgraceful manner.

   I smiled ignomously and said with an embarrassed voice, “I’m sorry, Laura. To be honest, that’s all the French I know. It was meant to impress you.”

   2007, Norman Shabel, The Badger Game, page 148

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   Adams wrote that “M. and I were ignomously (sic) picked up and dumped on too, as h.m.s. ‘Chaba’ drew too much water to be brought quite up to shore, or even near enough for a long jump.”

   2017, Colleen Marie Skidmore, Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography, quoting Molly Adams’s letter to “Dear Ones at Home,” 19-31 December 1908, page 27