ignoble
adjective
of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base.
ignobleness
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a word derived from
ignoble.
Example Sentences
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Could she live with such a man without sooner or later taking a taint of his ignobleness?
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
For ignobleness cannot, by the nature of it, choose the noble: no, there needs a seeing man who is himself noble, cognizant by internal experience of the symptoms of nobleness.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
This is faint-heartedness and cowardice, ignobleness and unmanliness.
From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Charles Ebert Orr
For a brief instant she sensed dimly the ignobleness of her jealousy of his daughter.
From Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore by Pauline Lester
The barrenness and ignobleness of the more usual laborer's life consist in the fact that it is moved by no such ideal inner springs.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
