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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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
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
Tintoret cannot stand the ignobleness; it is unendurably repulsive and discomfiting to him.
From The Two Paths by John Ruskin
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
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
