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  • r  in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

  • Fox released it, with an X rating, a month after another, more prominent X-er, "Myra Breckinridge," had ignominiously tanked.
  • You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage.
  • When executives decided to serve shark-fin soup, a Hong Kong favorite, environmentalists howled and Disney ignominiously yanked it from the menu.
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  • Riderless Horses Win Not One But Two Races Wednesday [Video]
    Riderless horses win two different races on Wednesday, making it one of the crazier days in sports betting recently. As you will see in these videos, in two different races with two different horses at two different tracks, jockeys are ignominiously thrown off their mounts and left behind in the dirt as the feisty thoroughbreds... Read more » Riderless Horses Win Not One But Two Races Wednesday ...
    June 28, 2013 - The Inquisitr
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  • Desmond Tutu in Telegraph.co.uk
    Archbishop Tutu pointed out that dictators and tyrants "bite the dust quite ignominiously" ultimately, and that the people who are most admired worldwide are those who strive for peace and justice.

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