What's the difference between disgraceful and ignoble?

Disgraceful


Definition:

  • (a.) Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The speech also made a reference to the disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, with Ashdown telling delegates that when he first stood for parliament in Yeovil in the 1970s, the Liberal leader at the time, Jeremy Thorpe, was facing trial at the Old Bailey.
  • (2) As the Labour leadership accused the coalition of launching a smear campaign over the party's links with the disgraced chairman, a transcript of an interview with Balls in 2010 showed that he highlighted his role in helped to create Britain's "first ever 'super-mutual'".
  • (3) Miliband – sounding more animated than normal – hit back at the prime minister, saying: "What an absolute disgrace to describe talking about cancer patients in this country as a smokescreen."
  • (4) Silfen told Haaretz: “I missed a critical committee session that I needed to attend and was sent home in disgrace because the length of my dress didn’t suit them.
  • (5) 'Have a thick skin' – sex discrimination commissioner's advice to her successor Read more Labor said it was “a disgrace for women everywhere” that the government was delaying appointing a replacement for Elizabeth Broderick, the long-serving commissioner whose term expired four months ago.
  • (6) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
  • (7) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
  • (8) Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a colleague in a Commons bar in 2012, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
  • (9) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
  • (10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
  • (11) The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was spared execution at a hearing last week, with a court in Hefei instead handing her the suspended penalty .
  • (12) After this disgraceful farce of wrongful blame (the spokespeople for the police and the NHS happy to tolerate, if not encourage, the misleading targeting of the social workers), the right questions are still being ignored.
  • (13) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
  • (14) The extent and depth of political bias in the BBC is a matter of opinion, but this is a disgrace by any standard, however low.
  • (15) The bill was assisted along its way by the fact that one of its most prominent opponents was disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien .
  • (16) Analysts say Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, is waiting to see how the Trump administration shapes up and who replaces South Korea’s disgraced president, Park Geun-hye.
  • (17) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
  • (18) The senior Tory has acknowledged he became heated after he was seen shouting "you're a disgrace" at Tories and Liberal Democrats who failed to vote with the government.
  • (19) Speaking from her home in New Jersey, she said: "Any letting out of Megrahi would be a disgrace.
  • (20) Blood laced with disgrace flows from my hands, feet and side.

Ignoble


Definition:

  • (a.) Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
  • (a.) Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
  • (a.) Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
  • (v. t.) To make ignoble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Minutes after Howard's ejection, fans at Staples Center cheered and applauded for the final time of the season as injured guard Kobe Bryant emerged from the locker room on crutches to witness the ignoble end of a Lakers season that once seemed so promising.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ignoble end for Aaron Craft and Ohio State, unless Craft attempts to return to Ohio State and tries to pretend it's his senior year again.
  • (3) "That would have been an ignoble thing to do, a shitty thing to do, to a guy who had been grappling with these issues.
  • (4) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
  • (5) Despite the emergence of the scientific journal, only a few authors partly transcended the stereotypes of the noble-ignoble savage.
  • (6) Ignoble though it is, that's just part of being human - though our capacity to liberate ourselves from pure self-interest means that it does not excuse this indifference.
  • (7) Will go down as another missed opportunity October 19, 2012 Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) All things considered, This has been a rather IGNOBLE summit!
  • (8) There was nothing ignoble about the Liberal Democrats entering government with the Tories .
  • (9) The move followed the ignoble tradition of propaganda against an equal age of consent, civil partnerships and same-sex adoption.
  • (10) But who will be the real winners and losers of this ignoble friendship that puts trade above human rights?
  • (11) We have an ignoble record in this country when it comes to emergency legislation.
  • (12) Here's footage of Spain on their way to the Euro 2008 final against Germany, courtesy of Marca, and - of course - the most ignoble post-match interview in the entire history of the game.
  • (13) Phil Spencer, the man who’s been in charge of the Xbox business plan since Don Mattrick’s ignoble departure in July 2013, has a stock answer for this.
  • (14) The running joke is an ignoble device, beloved of TV comedy.
  • (15) Asked about Maraniss’s tweet accusing him of being vile and ignoble, Garrow said he had never met or spoken to him and denied feeling insulted.
  • (16) The 1970s was a dangerous time for people of colour – the National Front was active and violent, particularly in south London, and it was an ignoble sacrifice for Powell to attack the most vulnerable and unprotected, those workers who had left their homes to come to Britain.
  • (17) 1.13am GMT Sugar Bowl And of course the big drama in the Sugar Bowl wasn't Alabama's ignoble defeat, it was this fight in the stands.
  • (18) This was even true during the actual occupation, with film-makers like Sacha Guitry, Claude Autant-Lara and Jean Cocteau making dubious compromises in order to function as artists, while some of France's great postwar film-makers – André Cayatte and Henri-Georges Clouzot, to name just two – first worked, nobly or ignobly, for Continental, the Nazi-supervised French production outfit.
  • (19) David Garrow, author of new Obama bio, was vile, undercutting, ignoble competitor unlike any I’ve encountered.” The controversy comes as Obama himself starts to mould his post-presidential career.
  • (20) We are dealing with experts in propaganda who will stop at nothing to see their version of events prevail, and on the rare occasions when the truth emerges, like a hernia popping through gorged corpse, they apologise discreetly for their ignoble flatulence in a mouse-sized font for hippo-sized lies.