ignominious defeat/failure/retreat etc• No other party risked ignominious defeat.• Saints managed a briefrecovery to 18-12 before falling away to ignominious defeat.• The anniversary of his coronation seemed destined to be marked by ignominious defeat.• They would wipe out the shame of their ignominious defeat!• It was an ignominious failure - the plane left the runway then crashed into a ball of flames.