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How to use ignoble in a sentence

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The story of native residential schools is an ignoble chapter in Canadian history.
She walked through the ignoble arch that separated kitchen from living room and took some bread from the pantry.
In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests.
There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable.
Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose.
He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
In these days of globalisation, the global picture of women is most ignoble and inequitable.
The entire venture was an ignoble failure, calling forth from Bernard a passionate lament over the sins of the crusaders.
They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor.
The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity.
Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious, it inflicts on the viewers.
It hit the floor with an ignoble splatting sound, and they both stared at it.
At the sight of them a rude, equally animal resentment rises in me, compounded of shame, fear, and ignoble joy not to be one of them.
The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse.
Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners.
There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages.
This was the type of fight that boxing fans like and purists of the ignoble art turn their backs on.
And yes, incidentally, I do know that it's ignoble and cowardly and pusillanimous, but I'll swap you for a decent night's sleep.
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Examples from Classical Literature
We were agreed that parents should rule their children, the elder the younger, the noble the ignoble.
An ambition that confessedly overleaps all bounds is at least not an ignoble one.
Certainly no man ever fell so ignobly, and by such ignoble instruments, as I did.
Raging against her own supineness, she was yet forced into ignoble inactivity.
All things considered, is ignoble the right epithet to apply to parasitism?
We knew that Williams, the ignoble designer of tonneaux, laboured under the delusion that he could paint.
That I am too poor, too ignoble, too undistinguished, to raise my eyes to such attraction.
The commissariat at home is too good to justify any suspicion of this ignoble sort of cupboard love.
It may be an ignoble thing to lie, but with what other weapon was I to fight this brigand?
It has come to be a dyslogistic term, partly because all myths are lies, but still more because some of them are ignoble lies.
Wrens and sparrows are not too ignoble a quarry for this villainous gos-hawk!
I remained there, amazed and confused by the insolence of this ignoble brute.
A gentleman, however distressed, will scarcely do anything ignoble, O thou Thousand-eyed One!
A wrong turn into the lava lake or a steaming fumarole would spell an ignoble end for Dante.
A thousand swords, now rusting in ignoble sloth, shall leap from their scabbards to do battle for your honor against wrong.
The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day brought each other freely to that temple of an old woman's not ignoble curiosity.
Thus Justin Martyr speaks of his appearance as ignoble and uncomely.
The Pope and his datary refused to interfere in this ignoble quarrel.
And vulgar, ignoble farce was turned into a great historical drama.
Rich or poor, high or low, noble or ignoble, thou only hast my heart.
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