Sentence examples for social ignominy from inspiring English sources

"These people say that being forced to claim benefits or move into a council property would be the worst kind of social ignominy and self-failure".

My act was returned with social ignominy.

If this happens to the rest of us at a social event, the ignominy only has to be suffered for a couple of hours made hazy with vodka.

It has elements of Jane Gardam's Old Filth – tetchy elderly people dealing with the ignominy of ageing – coupled with social commentary, dealing with, among other things, the war in Iraq, female genital mutilation and a plan to build a mosque in Headington.

Sarah Wise's meticulously researched excavation of this forgotten corner of ignominy is at times heavy-going, but by setting individual stories against the social and political conditions that created and sustained Victorian slums she breathes life into the squalid reality of the Old Nichol and the events that eventually led to its demolition.

And — ignominy!

Ignominy should follow.

"Oh, the sheer ignominy".

Further ignominy follows.

The ignominy of Match.com dating.

His ignominy lasted three days.