(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.
Inimical
Definition:
(a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
(a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nutritionists know that crash dieting is inimical to healthy eating in the long run.
(2) Since ion depletion is a constant concomitant of modern urban life, one reasonably may speculate about comparable inimical effects on humans.
(3) Extension of this motif was actually inimical to coherence.
(4) The "military modernizers" embraced a concept of development inimical to basic human needs, an economic model favoring growth over distribution and development over social welfare, and budget priorities favoring vocal, urban middle sectors at the expense of marginal populations.
(5) Such increases are usually thought of as inimical to health and therefore present the health educator with a dilemma.
(6) The survival of SA(-) derivatives in association with populations of SA(+) bacteria was dependent upon the use of culture conditions inimical to SA activity, since a consistent finding was that the loss of ability to produce SA was associated with loss of immunity to the killing action of this bacteriocin.
(7) The current psychoanalytic stance is presented as inimical to the stance Freud took, and an exploration of ways to ameliorate the conflict between American psychoanalytic thought and affirmation of homosexuality as an alternative healthy lifestyle is undertaken.
(8) The movement presents the symptoms of a prolonged infantile spasm, at the same time as a coherent belief that central government and especially Obamacare are inimical to the liberty of the individual and the freedom of individual states to determine their future.
(9) Sessions said that while he believed that “many people do have religious views that are inimical to the public safety of the United States”, at the same time, “I have no belief, and do not support the idea, that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States.” Since proposing a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in December 2015, Trump has taken a variety of different stances on the subject, most often saying he would restrict the ban to people arriving from countries affected by terrorism.
(10) Though a behavioral approach may be useful later in the treatment of such problems, the effective clinician must first address the inimical social and cultural contexts that frame lesbian sexual impasses.
(11) The two high court judges continued: "The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security is inimical to the rule of law," they ruled.
(12) Chronic depolarization is inimical to neuronal growth and synaptogenesis so that spontaneous action potential generation appears to be required for the normal cytomorphological maturation of neocortical networks.
(13) However, the discoveries in mice of a conserved family of immunoglobulin genes used exclusively by immunogenic forms of progesterone conjugated to proteins to stimulate antibody production, and of antibody binding to the uterine epithelium, reveal systems potentially inimical for embryo survival.
(14) The Discussion argues that the available data on conduction time to and from the cerebral cortex are compatible with the hypothesis that the long-latency component of the stretch reflex uses a transcortical reflex arc, and that none of the experiments described in the present paper are inimical to this view.
(15) It is suggested that enzymes, leukotrienes, catecholamines and eicosanoids released by degenerating leukocytes and platelets may be inimical to RBC.
(16) The authors view Webster and its anticipated legislative and judicial aftermaths as especially inimical to a physician's right to communicate with patients and to exercise medical judgment free from state interference.
(17) However, fever also often gives rise to risks and inimical sequelae.
(18) Photograph: Alamy Size: 0.03sq miles Threave Island introduced to the historical stage a character so morosely inimical there could be only one possible name for him: Archibald the Grim.
(19) If women were able to control their fertility in order not to have children at unwanted times in periods of their life when pregnancy is inimical to their health, the incidence of maternal mortality and morbidity would drop.
(20) Enactment rather than remembering is inimical to the development of insight into transference and genetic connections and must be worked through for the analysis to progress.