Ignoble
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
To make ignoble.
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Ignoble Quotations
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock
Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Ignoble Translations
ignoble in German is unedel
ignoble in Latin is ignotus
ignoble in Norwegian is gemen, ussel
ignoble in Spanish is innoble
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