Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Although Ravana burned at the ignominy of having been defeated and spared by Rama, he had no option except to jump off his stationary chariot and run back to Lanka to save his life.

Mahabharata:  Duryodhana couldn’t bear the ignominy of having been defeated by the Gandhavas in front of the Pandavas whom he had come to humiliate and then being rescued by those very Pandavas.

Bhagavad-gita:  Krishna told Arjuna that he would find the ignominy of being labelled a coward far more painful than even death.