IGNOBLE in a Sentence
Learn IGNOBLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
10 example sentences for IGNOBLE, such as:
1. It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
2. Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him.
3. This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.
4. When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.
2. Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him.
3. This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.
4. When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Meanings and Examples of IGNOBLE
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
ignoble
a. of lowly origin; not noble in quality, character, or purpose; unworthy
Classic Sentence:
1 "I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard," said Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so ignoble a leviathan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
2 It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.
3 It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
4 When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.
5 But I could not endure their taunts; I could not give in to them with the ignoble readiness with which they gave in to one another.
6 His childishly rash, uncalled-for, and ignoble departure from Africa, leaving his comrades in distress, is set down to his credit, and again the enemy's fleet twice lets him slip past.
7 Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him.
8 Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche.
9 I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.
Example Sentence:
1 This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.