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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No unkindness, suspicion, or ignobleness of any sort, ever interrupted or mixed in the affection of these high friends.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
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
For a brief instant she sensed dimly the ignobleness of her jealousy of his daughter.
From Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore by Pauline Lester
And of the ignoble intellect that does not seriously try, and has even reached the "ignobleness" of seriously trying the reverse, and of lying with its very tongue, what are we to expect?
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
