Example Sentences

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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

While many of his contemporaries saw him as the supreme hypocrite, it is only recently that popular culture — for example, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical, “Hamilton” — has caught up with Jefferson’s hypocrisy and ignobility.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2017

This last point speaks to a certain ignobility in bandwagon fandom, no doubt.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2015

And its chief ignobility is the love of marred, defiled, disordered, dulled, and imperfect skies, the skies of cities.

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson