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Meanings of ignoble in английском

Not of the nobility.

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Completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose.

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Usage of ignoble in английском
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Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven subservience as piety.
The Irish Times
2
The entire guard was piled in an ignoble mass on the floor.
A Poor Wise Man
3
It's quite an ignoble beginning to the tale of a national hero!
The Irish Times
4
The act of slaughter is always ignoble; sometimes necessary, but always ignoble.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
5
Then it is ignoble in you to talk to me of spies.
Can You Forgive Her?
6
In hours of stress like the present, there is no ignoble work.
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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This scrambling fight marked the ignoble end of the state of Franklin.
The Winning of the West, Volume 3 / The Founding of the Trans-Al...
8
But self-contempt may well consist with perseverance in gratification of ignoble instincts.
A Life's Morning
9
We call it 'ignoble,' because it takes the quarry in direct chase.
The King in Yellow
10
He was false, cunning, vulgar, ignoble; the cheapest kind of human product.
The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)
11
For Maddox considered the ceremony of marriage an ignoble and barbaric bond.
Somewhere in France
12
Beware of prostituting the higher teachings for selfish ends and ignoble purposes.
The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms
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The services performed by them are likewise divisible into noble and ignoble.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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They would be done with the ignoble work of defense behind fortifications.
Ten Great Events in History
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For thirteen months America has played an ignoble part among the nations.
Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive...
16
Such a course is as perilous as it is ignoble and unprofitable.
The Young Woman's Guide
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare