ignominiously

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In a manner which is ignominious (“especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable; (generally) causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful”).

   Men ignorant in letters, ſtudious for their bellies, and ignominiouſly lazie, vnleſſe ſome fevv that giue themſelues to nauigation; and become indifferent good Pilots.

2. 2
   adv

   in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree

Etymology

Etymology tree English ignominious Middle English -ly English -ly English ignominiously From ignominious + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from nouns). Ignominious is derived from Late Middle English ignominious (“disgraceful, shameful”), from Middle French ignominieux (modern French ignominieux), or from its etymon Latin ignōminiōsus (“disgraced; disgraceful, shameful, ignominious”), from ignōminia (“disgrace, dishonour, shame, ignominy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Ignōminia is derived from ig- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning not)) + nōme…