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Ignoble in sentence

20 examples of Ignoble in a sentence

Also, even if we were born with certain ignoble motives, they don't automatically lead to ignoble behavior.
But to disappear, to hide like a criminal, is ignoble.
When a film with such a reasonable premise is butchered and ultimately ends up dying an ignoble death, my first question was where was the strong hand of the director?
In other words, we see sad people stewing in their own juices which makes the buy-in difficult and the protagonists more ignoble.
Instead, the task of corrupting a centuries-old humanistic tradition has fallen to the Chinese Communist Party’s ignoble censor-in-chief and engineer of China’s literary exodus – and to the greed of some for Chinese gold.
This scientific pie fight, characterized by juvenile name-calling, ignoble tactics, and intellectual intransigence on both sides, not only left the public confused and scared; it undermined the efforts of the most important organizations working on advancing the science of climate change.
Many times, alleged contradictions are simply ignoble pretexts by autocrats who seek to legitimate evil by pointing out the "otherness" of their cultures.
Trump bears some resemblance to these ignoble examples.
Never had he reflected so much; he asked himself the why of his disgust on the morrow of that furious course among the pits; and he did not dare to reply to himself, his recollections were repulsive to him, the ignoble desires, the coarse instincts, the odour of all that wretchedness shaken out to the wind.
Julien was sullen all the evening; hitherto he had been angry only with fortune and with society; now that Fouque had offered him an ignoble way of arriving at comfort, he was angry with himself.
He had had as a rival only that ignoble Sub-Prefect M. Charcot, who had assumed the name of Maugiron, because the Maugirons were extinct.
My necessary rascalities will be, first of all, rarer, and secondly, less ignoble.
During the six weeks that had just elapsed, urged at one moment by a caprice, the Marquis had decided to enrich Julien; poverty seemed to him ignoble, dishonouring to himself, M. de La Mole, impossible in the husband of his daughter; he showered money upon him.
Approaching the picture, he raised his hand in search of the nail, but the portrait gave such a long, crushing, ignoble look, that Laurent after seeking to stare it out, found himself vanquished, and started back overpowered, murmuring as he did so:"No, you are right, Therese, we cannot do it.
Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and--we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat--he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him; so quickly, indeed, that he did not perceive the awkwardness of his situation, to the full extent, until too late.
He spends his days in uttering noble sentiments, and contradicting them by ignoble actions.
In the anteroom he found his attendant Anwold, who, taking the torch from the hand of the waiting-maid, conducted him with more haste than ceremony to an exterior and ignoble part of the building, where a number of small apartments, or rather cells, served for sleeping places to the lower order of domestics, and to strangers of mean degree.
'I can't think why we have no laws to punish such horrid, ignoble people.''Oh, it makes me sick to hear it!' muttered the Prince gloomily, rising as if he meant to go away, but stopping at the door.
I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.
Elle trouva un homme d’une taille élevée, mais un peu épaisse ; ses cheveux, ses moustaches, ses énormes favoris étaient d’un beau blond selon ses courtisans ; ailleurs ils eussent provoqué, par leur couleur effacée, le mot ignoble de “filasse”.