ignobility
Americannoun
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ignobilities
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It will be bandied about for the next few weeks: Does beating USC, having a winning record and making a bowl appearance compensate for three years of ignobility?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2021
She writes of heroic Black and lesbian history and activism but also of shame, of the ignobility of the years when her friends were dying, when she felt incapable, when she would run away.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2020
This last point speaks to a certain ignobility in bandwagon fandom, no doubt.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 16, 2015
The former me would have been incensed, but the present me couldn’t even muster the ignobility to shake my fist in the air while shouting, “I’ll show you!”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2012
Dire academic punishments were threatened to students who made "odious comparisons of country to country, nobility to ignobility, Faculty to Faculty."
From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers
They flourished, because "where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise" and no wave of unrest, few of the ignobilities and none of the nobilities of a more strenuous life had passed over them.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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