Ignoble
adjective
Not honorable in character or purpose.
He felt that his family's history of being farmers and workers was ignoble.
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- ignoble deeds
- ignoble pursuit
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Disapproving
adjective
Of humble origin or social status.
Her husband's idea of the family's ignoble position was always a source of friction.
Often appears as...
- ignoble birth
- ignoble origins
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Disapproving
adjective
Not honorable in character or purpose.
He felt that his family's history of being farmers and workers was ignoble.
Often appears as...
- ignoble deeds
- ignoble pursuit
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Of humble origin or social status.
Her husband's idea of the family's ignoble position was always a source of friction.
Often appears as...
- ignoble birth
- ignoble origins
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Carries a judgement or disapproval, implying a lack of honor or morality.
The politician was involved in several ignoble scandals.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Viewpoint
Usage implies the speaker's personal view on honor, which can be subjective.
He referred to their scheming as an ignoble tactic.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perspective
Understanding of 'ignoble' can vary across different cultures and historical periods.
The knight's betrayal was seen as ignoble in the context of medieval chivalry.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Carries a judgement or disapproval, implying a lack of honor or morality.
The politician was involved in several ignoble scandals.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Viewpoint
Usage implies the speaker's personal view on honor, which can be subjective.
He referred to their scheming as an ignoble tactic.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perspective
Understanding of 'ignoble' can vary across different cultures and historical periods.
The knight's betrayal was seen as ignoble in the context of medieval chivalry.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Carries a judgement or disapproval, implying a lack of honor or morality.
The politician was involved in several ignoble scandals.
Pro Tip 2/3Subjective Viewpoint
Usage implies the speaker's personal view on honor, which can be subjective.
He referred to their scheming as an ignoble tactic.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perspective
Understanding of 'ignoble' can vary across different cultures and historical periods.
The knight's betrayal was seen as ignoble in the context of medieval chivalry.
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Steven Pinker: Human...
and that every person ought to be treated as an individual, and not prejudged by the statistics of particular groups that they may belong to. Also, even if we were born with certain ignoble motives,
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Researching How to Live...
they went out this morning and found three three lambs that work I'll kill that happened last night I know it's just an ignoble everything here whatever you call it but it it that's what
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Steven Pinker: Human...
and that every person ought to be treated as an individual, and not prejudged by the statistics of particular groups that they may belong to. Also, even if we were born with certain ignoble motives,
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Researching How to Live...
they went out this morning and found three three lambs that work I'll kill that happened last night I know it's just an ignoble everything here whatever you call it but it it that's what
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Bhagat Singh
Indian Activist
Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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Christopher Robin Milne
English Businessman
War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
Russian Philosopher
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Benjamin Spock
American Scientist
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.
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Amber Rudd
British Politician
Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.
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Theodore Roosevelt
American President
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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Bhagat Singh
Indian Activist
Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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Christopher Robin Milne
English Businessman
War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the value of work in all its forms whether manual or intellectual, to be called 'mate,' to have sympathetic understanding of all forms of activity.
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
Russian Philosopher
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Benjamin Spock
American Scientist
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.
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Amber Rudd
British Politician
Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.
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Theodore Roosevelt
American President
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
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