(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.
Ignominy
Definition:
(n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
(n.) An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(2) Ignominy On the radio, he spoke of his intention "to resist by all means, at the cost of my life: to leave to the ignominy of history the lesson of those who have force but not reason."
(3) Tesco's ignominious exit from the US will grab all the headlines but the truth is that even without the Fresh & Easy debacle the supermarket would probably still have seen its profits fall for the first time in 20 years.
(4) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(5) I see the possibility of terminal, and potentially ignominious decline."
(6) The conservative New Democracy party – the dominant force in a coalition lead by the outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras – suffered ignominious defeat, collapsing to 76 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
(7) For months, Nick Clegg has been itching to take aim at what he regards as the Conservatives' dangerous approach to the EU, which could set Britain on the path to an ignominious exit.
(8) Instead they lost 2-1 to tiny Iceland , in another ignominious exit from Europe.
(9) This time, he has a place.” ’88, ’08 and right now Biden’s first presidential run, in 1988, ended ignominiously.
(10) Yet this ignominious retreat became enshrined as a glorious victory; the guts of survivors made it a founding myth.
(11) He now joins an ignominious list of individuals stripped of their honours, including Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, and Anthony Blunt, who spied for Russia.
(12) Friday’s dramatic judgement brings an abrupt and ignominious end to Park’s four years in office – the most dramatic development yet in a scandal that has gripped and horrified South Koreans in equal measure.
(13) The strange thing, perhaps, is that Roy Hodgson spent the day in Paris but chose not to make a personal check on the team who will be trying to inflict ignominy upon England in Nice on Monday.
(14) What can we infer from Lidl's foray into everyday British life – that something once a source of ignominy has become normalised?
(15) With one ignominious intervention, the window has now been moved, and various anti-Muslim bigots can say: “Well Donald Trump has gone too far, but here’s what I would say instead.” They suddenly become the more moderate alternatives where once they would have been seen as themselves extreme.
(16) Which is basically what I'd have been doing if I wasn't in the show... Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love...
(17) But some commentators have made comparisons with the ignominious departure of Angus Deayton, longtime chair of the topical quiz Have I Got News For You .
(18) Much of the capital of Anbar province, the scene of an ignominious defeat of the Iraqi military by Islamic State in May and now largely won back after a gruelling offensive backed by 600 US-led coalition airstrikes, is in ruins.
(19) The Sounders choked on the run-in and despite Clint Dempsey finally scoring in the last game of the regular season, it wasn’t enough to overhaul LA for third place in the West, and avoid the ignominy of the wild card game.
(20) The wonderful Scottish writer John Burnside, in his book I Put a Spell on You , makes an apt comment that the hit song "Don't leave me this way" is a pathetically ignominious response to a departing lover.