| 词汇 | ignoble |
| 释义 | ignoble adjective formaluk /ɪɡˈnəʊ.bəl/ us /ɪɡˈnoʊ.bəl/ morally bad and making you feel ashamed: 卑鄙的，可耻的 an ignoble action/idea卑鄙的行为／想法 Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy in the doghouseidiom shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something Related wordignobly Examples of ignobleignoble The noble man is not only more rational than the ignoble but stronger in desire. At what point does it become ignoble or disrespectful to the victims if we persist in forgiving those individuals who at best may make only a partial moral recovery? These ideals are not ignoble. Flyvbjerg has produced a readable and interesting account of one particular plan which had such promising beginnings but an ignoble end. It was an uphill task but by no means an ignoble one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the description was accurate, it was an ignoble and contemptible business, whatever the propaganda was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Maybe this was an arrogant belief, but it was certainly not an ignoble one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not ignoble for a party to put forward a slate of candidates any more than a slate of policies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Men may deride that ideal; they may say it is a futile and an unreliable ideal, but they cannot call it an ignoble one. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We see a very ignoble spectacle of newspaper trials of generals to-day when they come back to the country they have served. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, there is an animal perhaps no more ignoble than the motor cycle, and that animal is man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say there is a motive behind this most ignoble campaign. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not an ignoble and inglorious thing that we are discussing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It occasionally makes an ignoble appearance on the men's plates at dinner to vary a monotonous diet. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some cases we have played a noble part, but in many cases we have played an ignoble part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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