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

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

Poverty, crime and an ignoble moniker — “Scary Gary” — deter private investors and prospective homeowners.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2024

Jealousy seemed to him the most ignoble of vices.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White