ignoble
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Also, he considers it ignoble to ride an elevator down after the climb, as Honnold has said he’ll do.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“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
He asserted that pretty much all accounts of cannibalism are hearsay, a propaganda tool by scholars of the British Empire to help tame the ignoble savage.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023
I have fought for you also, Sir Gawaine, and saved you from an ignoble death.”
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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