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English
Etymology
Medial clipping of ignominiously, equivalent to ignomous + -ly.
Adverb
ignomously (comparative more ignomously, superlative most ignomously)
- (uncommon, nonstandard) Ignominiously; in a shameful or disgraceful manner.
2007, Norman Shabel, The Badger Game, page 148:I smiled ignomously and said with an embarrassed voice, “I’m sorry, Laura. To be honest, that’s all the French I know. It was meant to impress you.”
2017, Colleen Marie Skidmore, Searching for Mary Schäffer: Women Wilderness Photography, quoting Molly Adams’s letter to “Dear Ones at Home,” 19-31 December 1908, page 27:Adams wrote that “M. and I were ignomously (sic) picked up and dumped on too, as h.m.s. ‘Chaba’ drew too much water to be brought quite up to shore, or even near enough for a long jump.”
Usage notes
- Generally considered an error.