For instance, the more versatile Singaporeans, with richer experiences of life, might have been deterred from taking part for fear of losing face within sight of friends and relatives, should they perform ignominiously.
He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.
Emily lay on the floor, with her legs ignominiously doubled up over her head, and a new flat place on the end of her nose; but she was calm, even dignified.
Leave such mean ways of speech to the Superintendent of Police, who after his death will hardly find the smallest place behind the unfortunates whom now he carries ignominiously to the spittel.
That same day Chamberlain appointed Churchill as the new First Lord of the Admiralty, the position he had held a quarter of a century earlier and ignominiously vacated after the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign.
You would think that invoking the Alien Enemies Act now, 200 years after it was ignominiously dismissed as one of the worst things that happened in the early national period, you would think that the courts would say no.