ignoble

How To Use ignoble In A Sentence

• Not the great sorrows of life, or its great sacrifices, but fretfulness, ignoble worries, sordid cares, are that which draw lines upon a woman's face and harshen her features. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
• There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
• For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
• After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
• Tartars be most insolent, and they scorne and set nought by all other noble and ignoble persons whatsoeuer. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
• Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds.
• Of course it is irksome to have to persuade one's fellow states, many of which act out of ignoble motives.
• But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose.
• Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche. Les Miserables