Example sentences for: ignoble

How can you use “ignoble” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.

  • William Styron argues that "a complicity between the public and the media has generated an ignoble voyeurism so pervasive that we have never permitted a candidate like Bill Clinton to proclaim with fury that his sex life, past and present, is nobody's business but his own."

  • The ignoble impulses of both sexes are part of a complex mind that can often override them; and social arrangements, from individual marriages to entire legal systems, can change for the better.

  • Barnes and Ignoble

  • But this is ignoble.


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