Sentence examples for ignoble actions from inspiring English sources
He volunteers for service in the war because he believes that it is a noble effort, but he soon becomes disillusioned when he witnesses only chaos and ignoble actions.
Others have been in the news for both noble and ignoble actions: Bobby Jr. has done and continues to do important environmental work; Michael Kennedy had an affair with the family's teenage baby sitter.
Most of it is set in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris: a noble institution, where all manner of ignoble activity unfolds.
And the Republicans' actions belie their ignoble intentions; their rhetoric reveals a dark ambition which most Americans -- even those who from their living rooms tow the party line and carry the party water -- would normally reject.
Beneath an all-encompassing canopy of black, the action seemed to shrink to hobbit scale, though the German tenor Peter Seiffert, singing the title role of the ignoble hero, is a physically towering presence.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
But was the end, perhaps, more ignoble?
This is not entirely ignoble, by the way.
Gin was seen as ignoble in 18th-century England.
