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Word For The Day - IGNOMINY
www.dictionary.com ^ | 12/01/2017 | Red Badger

Posted on 12/01/2017 7:41:33 AM PST by Red Badger

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ig·no·min·y ˈiɡnəˌminē,ˌiɡˈnäminē/ noun noun: ignominy; plural noun: ignominies

public shame or disgrace. "the ignominy of being imprisoned" synonyms: shame, humiliation, embarrassment, mortification; More disgrace, dishonor, discredit, degradation, scandal, infamy, indignity, ignobility, loss of face "they face the ignominy of losing three straight games to the league's worst team" antonyms: honor

Origin mid 16th century: from French ignominie or Latin ignominia, from in- ‘not’ + a variant of nomen ‘name.’


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1 posted on 12/01/2017 7:41:33 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; TruthShallSetYouFree; ...
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day........
2 posted on 12/01/2017 7:42:15 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger; Louis Foxwell

Instead of traipsing around the world,
And acting like a ninny,
Obama should spend his latter years
Contemplating his ignominy.


3 posted on 12/01/2017 7:44:46 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: left that other site

EXCELLENT!..................A+++!..............................


4 posted on 12/01/2017 7:48:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Please explain the reason for your recent absence:

Member of the jury at the Steinle Trial

Response fro HR: You and your descendants will live in everlasting ignominy.

5 posted on 12/01/2017 7:48:43 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ptsal

I hope so!................A+++!..................


6 posted on 12/01/2017 8:12:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The eternally ignominious response to Pilate’s question.

Matt 27:21

The jury in San Francisco will have to answer for their action.

The evidence demands a verdict.


7 posted on 12/01/2017 8:21:47 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: ptsal

Amen! A+!..................


8 posted on 12/01/2017 8:41:39 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger
There once was a fag from Kenya Who bankrupted and overspent ya His dying plea, will probably be 'Dear Satan, anything but ignominy!' 8O)
9 posted on 12/01/2017 9:50:13 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: heterosupremacist

Excellent!...............A++!...............................


10 posted on 12/01/2017 10:01:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Hi Teach! (Robt waves hand, arm, and ear vigorously.) We’re hear!

Oh, wait. Ignoreme, I was waiting for the rest for the rest of the class to wake up, but they’re still asleep. (Congress was up late last night, not getting anything done.)


11 posted on 12/01/2017 3:17:23 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; Red Badger

Ignominy.

I thought we already had a nominee for the Inspector General post.


12 posted on 12/01/2017 5:47:05 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Red Badger

can I get back on the ping list, please?


13 posted on 12/13/2017 6:20:28 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® ...)
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To: hobbes1

Okay1..........................


14 posted on 12/14/2017 6:47:02 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: hobbes1; Louis Foxwell; xsmommy

Ping list addition.............


15 posted on 12/14/2017 6:49:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Hello boys...Daddys home, I will serve no fries before their time!


16 posted on 12/14/2017 10:00:19 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® ...)
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To: NicknamedBob

Major Woody, reporting for duty


17 posted on 12/14/2017 10:14:30 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® ...)
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To: Red Badger

Ignominy? The entire congress.Seriously. Blake Farenthold? resigning? seriously, sexual harrassment?


18 posted on 12/14/2017 10:24:09 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® ...)
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To: hobbes1
"Major Woody, reporting for duty"

Not something I'd mention in public.

19 posted on 12/14/2017 4:49:07 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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lol. you did see the wftd? Youve forgotten my sense of irony.lol


20 posted on 12/14/2017 4:53:12 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® ...)
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