ignoble

Example Sentences

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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

Simple, ignoble, under-appreciated green cabbage: It has got to be one of the most unpretentious and humblest in all of the Cruciferae family, if not among the entire vegetable kingdom.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2024

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

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