What's the difference between honorable and ignoble?

Honorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.
  • (a.) High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation.
  • (a.) Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive.
  • (a.) Conferring honor, or produced by noble deeds.
  • (a.) Worthy of respect; regarded with esteem; to be commended; consistent with honor or rectitude.
  • (a.) Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial.
  • (a.) Of reputable association or use; respectable.
  • (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (2) Last month, Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a sit-in during the city’s gay pride march, which the group had been invited to join as an honored guest.
  • (3) The Hollander test of gastric secretion in response to acute hypoglycemia is a time-honored method of evaluating vagal integrity.
  • (4) NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said as recently as January that the mascot is "presented in a way that honors Native Americans," and further claimed that nine of 10 Native Americans polled actually support it .
  • (5) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
  • (6) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
  • (7) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
  • (8) We’ve had over 100 years to honor her with our own actions.
  • (9) This article reflects upon five surgeons who have been recognized as worthy of this honor.
  • (10) This week, Reich and his musicians performed three nights of concerts with the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at a festival in honor of the 50 th anniversary of Nonesuch Records.
  • (11) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
  • (12) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
  • (13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
  • (14) Honor & Folly ( honorandfolly.com , one bedroom $165 a night, both bedrooms $215, plus a sofabed for children) is a home away from home with a fully stocked kitchen and a cosy living area decorated with vintage and locally crafted furniture.
  • (15) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
  • (16) "I did not see this coming," said Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan , tipping his hat to competitor House of Cards, the first online contender for top Emmy honors.
  • (17) Event recording during anesthesia depends upon the time-honored but inefficient handmade record of the anesthetist.
  • (18) Then, in December, Abe paid a visit to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where 14 war criminals from the second world war are honored.
  • (19) Yet, the time-honored theory of calcium-soap formation enjoys wide acceptance.
  • (20) In an executive order he ruled that young immigrants who arrived in the US illegally before age 16 and spent at least five continuous years here would be allowed to stay and apply for work permits, providing they had no criminal history and met other criteria, such as graduating from high school or serving honorably in the military.

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.