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ignobly

[ig-nohb-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that is ignoble or dishonorable.



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No matter if the hoisting was his wife’s doing, as Alito ignobly claimed.

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But a running debate about whether the ends justify the means in police work never ignites, and the movie climaxes ignobly with a plot point involving a machine that injects drugs into coffee.

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Today, he went on, French elites have decided, ignobly, that a new kind of French power can be obtained only by entwining the country within the European Union.

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“The government has acted ignobly in this case, by failing to comply with court orders, submitting demonstrably false declarations of Government officials, and otherwise violating its litigation obligations,” Goldsmith wrote.

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His journey to moguldom began ignobly, with Facemash.com, a meanspirited site that encouraged his fellow male students at Harvard College to rate women on campus by their looks.

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