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Ignoble
Ignoble meaning
Not noble; plebeian; common. | Not honorable; base. | Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
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Unfortunately, the grass isn’t always greener in those darker soils — just read about the student who faced the ignoble aftermath of being kicked from group chats.
Like the biblical lepers, he refused to bear the ignoble names that were given to him as a result of the expediency of the electioneering campaign at the time.
That the Supreme Court, as presently constituted under Justice Mohammed Tanko, has become heavily compromised; lost its credibility and is now annexed to execute ignoble agenda of the APC-led Federal Government against the Nigerian people.
We particularly note the ignoble statement credited to Human Rights Watch, a group that has been repeatedly discredited having been found to be in collusion with NGOs that have stated their avowed mission to destabilize Nigeria.
Except for one brief unveiling of this glory to three disciples, Jesus wore that veil all the way to an ignoble cross.
In fact, it seems like it would be difficult to think up ways to add gender bias into a game like Monopoly, but somehow Hasbro has figured out how to achieve this ignoble goal.
By all means give to charity, but let’s also bring the scourge of extreme poverty back into our political conversation and push for policies that will confine it to the ignoble trash heap of history.
Houston grumbled that Texans were “stilling the voice of reason,” and he predicted an “ignoble defeat” for the South.
In a statement on Tuesday, the governor condemned the “ignoble meddlesomeness, rascality and high-handedness of some security agencies”.
The goal of correcting public misconception is arguably commendable, but Hirani’s modus operandi feels particularly ignoble when dealing with public figures.
The last owner, Prof Harold Livermore, bequeathed the house to the trust, but by then it was so dilapidated that it found an ignoble place on the register of listed buildings in danger of being lost.
While calling on the Governor to dissociate himself from what he called ignoble public show of impunity, Tunde Olanipekun also added that the monarch should be prosecuted for contemptuous act and felony.
Heraclitus regarded the soul as being a mixture of fire and water, with fire being the more noble part and water the ignoble aspect.
He regarded the soul as being a mixture of fire and water, with fire being the noble part of the soul, and water the ignoble part.
Like Dickens, he began with a disclaimer: Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage.
Many people metaphorically interpret the Asura as manifestations of the ignoble passions in the human mind and as a symbolic devices.
Medieval chroniclers gave varying descriptions of her rank: one described her as an ignoble consort of inferior birth, while others described her birth as noble.
Pantheistic and polytheistic faiths make no such distinction; gods and other beings of transcendent power often have complex, ignoble, or even irrational motivations for their acts.
Tamar was also pressured into dismissing her father's appointees, among them the constable Qubasar (ყუბასარი), a Georgian Kipchak of ignoble birth, who had helped George III in his crackdown on the defiant nobility.
The concept of the ignoble savage gave Europeans the "right" to establish colonies without considering the possibility of preexisting, functional societies.