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Ignoble

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Adjective

1. ignoble

completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose

Example Sentences:
'something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude'
'I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part'

2. ignoble, ungentle, untitled

not of the nobility

Example Sentences:
'of ignoble (or ungentle) birth'
'untitled civilians'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ignoble

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adjective
1. 
dishonourable; base; despicable
2. 
of low birth or origins; humble; common
3. 
of low quality; inferior
4. falconry
a. 
designating short-winged hawks that capture their quarry by swiftness and adroitness of flight
Compare noble (sense 7)
b. 
designating quarry which is inferior or unworthy of pursuit by a particular species of hawk or falcon

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Ignoble

see synonyms of ignoble
adjective
1. 
not noble in birth or position; of the common people
2. 
not noble in character or quality; dishonorable; base; mean

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ignoble

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adj.
1. Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or dishonorable. See Synonyms at base2.
2. Not of high social status; common.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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