While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy. |
And, I might add, the ignominy of being caught evading customs duty on several lakhs worth of luxury goods. |
Peter felt this question, asked only out of concern and worry, to be the final stroke of the whip of ignominy that had flogged him all afternoon. |
Under the proposed arrangements junior doctors will no longer suffer the ignominy of overtime paid at a fraction of the basic hourly rate. |
English soccer hordes have brought disgrace to themselves, contempt on their nation and ignominy to those who try, fitfully, to govern them. |
It's a battle of dignity against ignominy, a battle for the rights of the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America. |