Sentence examples for ignoble practice from inspiring English sources
"But," he said, "it was an adjustment of an unfair, underhanded and ignoble practice in the first place and it was forced.
This ignoble practice is not rendered less objectionable when it is presumed to be given at the expense of the publisher …" Actually, these days, the recession has dramatically cut publishers' launch parties, dinners etc. Prizes such as Costa and Booker, on the other hand, are floated on a sea of sponsored alcohol.
In other words, if we consumers want our ISPs to invest in their own businesses, we need to take it on the chin and open ourselves up to unfair and ignoble practices like bandwidth throttling (which Comcast has been caught at by the FCC before, after swearing on a Bible stack of technical manuals they would never do so) and guaranteeing optimal data delivery only to the highest bidders.
Most of us have contemplated both extremes of America's military operations, from stunning Osama-like takedowns to horrendous torture practices in Iraq, from American soldiers given a hero's welcome in troubled lands to acts of ignoble savagery, pain and even rape (hi, Blackwater).
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.
But was the end, perhaps, more ignoble?
"Ignoble pirate motives generated 'enlightened' outcomes," Leeson writes.
