Disrepute vs Ignominy - What's the difference?
disrepute | ignominy | Related terms |
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
* 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
* a.'' 1994 , (Bill Watterson), ''Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat , Andrews McMeel, ISBN 0-83621769-1, page 168:
Disrepute is a related term of ignominy.
As nouns the difference between disrepute and ignominy
is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while ignominy is great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.As a verb disrepute
is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.disrepute
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Noun
(-)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .
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*ignominy
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Noun
(ignominies)- It was tribal, almost relentless and, in the case of the official England band, there was a degree of ignominy , too, for repeatedly playing a tune for which the words go “Fuck the IRA”, something that could lead to a full breakdown of their relationship with the FA.
- Calvin:'' Our great plan backfired and ''I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy !