ignoble

Was this what they called an ignoble concern with the physical world?

Those who believe that, make whatever end they seek ignoble.

He considered her a child, or something even more ignoble: she had no word for the concept.

That would be a disastrous and ignoble thing to do.

He saw only too well, also, into what ignoble depths this policy led us.

There was not a single base or ignoble motive in what she had done.

"Do you not think it an ignoble act to attack an absent man?"

"May this period of your ignoble trial be brought to a distinguished close."

Too bad that it is wasted on this ignoble cause.

The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons, but from financial necessity.

But he put the ignoble secondary motive out of his head.

No real royalty would ever admit to such ignoble things.

How can war be glorious with such an ignoble weapon?

And you brought a noble knight to an ignoble end.

It was not an ignoble way of passing your life."

It was an ignoble end to a once splendid venture.

I prefer to think of myself on less ignoble terms."

She has come to the most ignoble end possible.

A few had the ignoble task of removing the line for which they were built.

They refused to accept for a moment that there could be found one ignoble thought in all the world.

Even then, it was stripped from that bill and died an ignoble death on the Senate floor.

Proof that there were days when the ignoble lord thought of someone other than himself.

But is there seriously a difference between the noble and the ignoble?

But they appear to us in ignoble and parodied form.

"You think that I would be guilty of choosing an example on such an ignoble basis?"