ignoble
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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
Until the events of “Through the Valley,” the second “The Last of Us” episode of Season 2, the Stark paterfamilias' ignoble demise was the most agonizing turn of all.
From Salon • Apr. 21, 2025
Shy, quiet, stubborn, he took bows timidly, avoided publicity and denied that he had anything so ignoble as a career.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023
In a few moments she ceased to flap, and hung upside down, revolving slowly, looking ignoble and indignant and ridiculous, holding her head the right way up like a snake’s.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing ignoble
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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