ignoble
adjectives
completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
"something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
is derived from
antonym
is similar to
having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
"that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
see also
lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
"cowardly dogs, ye will not aid me then"- P.B.Shelley
see also
lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor
"dishonorable in thought and deed"
is an attribute of
the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
not of the nobility
"of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"
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