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
Ernst's implication that people should welcome suffering and death has a long and ignoble history.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2025
In “Monolith,” a single-setting thriller from the Australian director Matt Vesely, a recently disgraced investigative journalist attempts to salvage her career by accepting an ignoble and humiliating task: starting a podcast.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024
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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