ignoble

He won despite a long, ignoble record.

McKibben said he was moved to found Third Act after he heard too many people his age say it was up to the next generation to solve these problems, which seemed “some combination of ignoble and impractical.”

Former President Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in New York is an ignoble first.

"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. It is nutrient-packed, like the rest of its cruciferous brethren, yet it has not always garnered the same respect as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or even broccoli."

Noble words for an ignoble political era, but it was an equally critical time six months ago, and history should also judge him for what he did not do back then.