Honest to God, I had to stop and look it up. I am not expressing an opinion on the story, but one has to ask where the hell he came up with that comment and word. I hope he doesn’t actually speak like that.
I had go look up ignominious pasquinade too. There, I’ve used it 3 times. Its part of my vocabulary now too. I get a kick out of arcane speech.
Spiro Agnew was great at that kind of speech. My favorite quote from him was when he called anti war protesters,” An effete corp of impudent snobs.” He also liked to use the word “nabob.” I looked that one up but don’t remember what it means. It just looks interesting.