Crossword-Solution: IGNOBLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ignoble | a. | Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. |
| Ignoble | a. | Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. |
| Ignoble | a. | Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk. |
| Ignoble | v. t. | To make ignoble. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IGNOBLE | anagram | GOBELIN, IGNOBEL, INGLOBE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with IGNOBLE (5)
Thus _Belial_ with words cloath’d in reasons garb Counsel’d ignoble ease, and peaceful sloath, Not peace: and after him thus _Mammon_ spake.
Thus the superiority of the counsellor, which often renders counsel unpalatable, is kept out of view, and the lesson comes with the greater acceptance when the reader is led, unconsciously to himself, to have his sympathies enlisted in behalf of what is pure, honorable, and praiseworthy, and to have his indignation excited against what is low, ignoble, and unworthy.
Their prodigious bounds and the shrill, screeching purr of their uncanny mouths were well calculated to confuse and terrorize their prey, so that as two of them leaped simultaneously from either side, the mighty sweep of those awful tails met with no resistance and two more green Martians went down to an ignoble death.
Noble, then, is the bond which links together sight and visibility, and great beyond other bonds by no small difference of nature; for light is their bond, and light is no ignoble thing? Nay, he said, the reverse of ignoble.
What do you know about my sensibilities and my imagination? How do you know whether I have loved or suffered? If I have held my tongue and not troubled you with my complaints, you find it the most natural thing in the world to put an ignoble construction on my silence.
Quotes with IGNOBLE (3)
I have brought peace to this land, and security," he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would co…
Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.
But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).