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.

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 Meanings and Examples of IGNOBLE
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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 ...
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
3  It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
4  When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
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.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
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.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
7  Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
9  I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
Example Sentence:
1  This plan is inspired by ignoble motives and I must, therefore, oppose it.