ignoble

Example Sentences

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The ignoble battle ends when a neighbor, Mrs. Prothero, shouts that her house is on fire, “announcing ruin like a town crier in Pompeii.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

“It has these very ignoble beginnings,” said Mark P. Nevitt, a law professor at Emory University and one of the country’s foremost experts on the statute.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

Ernst's implication that people should welcome suffering and death has a long and ignoble history.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2025

In “Monolith,” a single-setting thriller from the Australian director Matt Vesely, a recently disgraced investigative journalist attempts to salvage her career by accepting an ignoble and humiliating task: starting a podcast.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024

But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer