Sentence examples for ignoble activity from inspiring English sources
Most of it is set in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Paris: a noble institution, where all manner of ignoble activity unfolds.
Through his allegedly ignoble activities, the former POW is now the reason American soldiers are dead.
As such, activities associated with manual labor or the mechanical arts were seen as vulgar and ignoble while activities associated with philosophy were seen as liberal and enlightening.
Tolerating prostitution, closing one' s eyes to the shop windows, right here in Brussels, where prostitutes are on show like so much merchandise, as if this were a commercial activity which could be listed in a trading register, is ignoble and also irresponsible on the part of elected representatives responsible for the welfare of the community.
Trivial or ignoble pleasures are sought instead by those who are stunted in their capacities or opportunities for higher activities, or else fail to develop the intellectual and moral virtues needed to use these well, and consequently fall short of the natural human goal.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
This is not entirely ignoble, by the way.
Gin was seen as ignoble in 18th-century England.
"Ignoble pirate motives generated 'enlightened' outcomes," Leeson writes.
