ignoble
Speech parts
1. ignoble - Adjective
2. ignoble - Verb
3. ignoble - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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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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.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.
Like a shadow in the morning, the friendship of the ignoble man is great at first, then gradually decreases and disappears. Like a shadow in the after noon, the friendship of the noble man is small at first, then gradually increases.