ignominy

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In her starkly tender photographs Ireland transforms Williams’s stalwart pews into stand-ins for long-departed parishioners while the peeling facade’s sunburst window observes the ignominies of time.

From New York Times

In a dramatic twist, now they face the ignominy of being overthrown by the same people who brought them to power.

From BBC

How has Trump himself reacted to the Jan. 6 hearings and their devastating depiction of his gross criminality and bottomless ignominy?

From Salon

Everything I had repressed, the shame and ignominy, the miasma of whiteness had returned in the form of fury.

From Salon

The Mariners escaped the ignominy of being no-hit with a pair of singles with two outs in the eighth inning.

From Seattle Times