Ignominious vs Bashful - What's the difference?
ignominious | bashful |
Marked by shame or disgrace.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
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(rfc-sense) inclined to avoid notice
reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
As adjectives the difference between ignominious and bashful
is that ignominious is marked by shame or disgrace while bashful is inclined to avoid notice.ignominious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
- In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
