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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ignoble of" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that lacks honor, decency, or nobility. It can also suggest a sense of disgrace or shame. Example: It was ignoble of him to betray his friends for personal gain.
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Critics largely blanched, accusing the group of making a play for that most ignoble of goals: prestige.
What audacity: to take the most ignoble of everyday objects, – an item of sanitary equipment – and declare it art.
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Fetchit reluctantly agrees, but insists on a hefty salary hike, a hired car and various other symbols of his importance to the studio; fully aware of the ignoble nature of the roles he's forced to play, he can only assert his authority — and assuage his wounded pride — by insisting on ostentatious displays of his commercial success.
There's a wee bit of what Guy says in The Quarry about being well rid of some of the more ignoble aspects of the present day".
So what is to be done, in this brave new political world of multiple intransigent subgroups, multiple staunchly believed claims of fascism, and the ignoble failure of the anti-fascist tactics of the past?
Fascist architecture, long ignored or despised by most Italians as a disturbing reminder of an ignoble period of their history, is enjoying a comeback.
An analysis by Exotix, a research group, found that peripheral European nations have ratings six notches higher than emerging economies with similar financial conditions.The commission's paper is part of an ignoble tradition of "shooting the messenger".
If he did it through foul means and fouler – he fouled Maradona alone a record 23 times, despite being booked early on – then it's also the definitive demonstration of the ignoble art of man-to-man marking.
One of the ignoble joys of my life is watching very smart scientists just reinvent all the second-rate philosophical ideas because they're very tempting until you pause, take a deep breath and take them apart".
By putting the student movement on a T-shirt, Topshop is continuing an ignoble tradition of capitalism: that of forcing dissent into a glittered-up package and selling it back to the masses.
More directly affecting me, more sinister and telling of the shady, ignoble side of war, are the friends and family who have mysteriously disappeared over the years, from airports in Egypt, mosques in Bahrain and homes in Iraq.
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