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

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

From Salon • Jun. 4, 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

An ignoble end for a bodyguard of his caliber.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer