Thursday, June 24, 2010

Word Of The Day - Ignominious

Ignominious - If you describe an experience or action as ignominious, you mean it is embarrassing because it shows a great lack of success.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional and ignominious exit, quitting just before the centre-left Labor Party was to dump him in an internal ballot and less than three years after a stunning election victory in 2007.

Source - The Star News M'sia
Dictionary - http://www.google.com/dictionary?sl=en&tl=en&q=ignominious

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