ignobly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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One of the ministers has typhoid, cannot stand up and must die ignobly in a pool of water.
No matter if the hoisting was his wife’s doing, as Alito ignobly claimed.
From Seattle Times
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.
From New York Times
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.
From New York Times
“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.
From Reuters
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