Meaning & use
ignoble
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Not honorable in character or purpose; shameful or low.
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He met an ignoble end, disgraced and abandoned by his former allies.
There was something ignoble about profiting from other people's misfortune.
A note on using this word
Ignoble is the direct opposite of 'noble' and tends to appear in formal or literary writing.
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dishonorableshameful
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