Indecent vs Ignominious - What's the difference?
indecent | ignominious | Related terms |
offensive to good taste
not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly
Marked by shame or disgrace.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
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Indecent is a related term of ignominious.
As adjectives the difference between indecent and ignominious
is that indecent is indecent while ignominious is marked by shame or disgrace.indecent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemlyAnagrams
*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.