ignoble (adj.)

  1. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude; I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  2. not of the nobility; of ignoble (or ungentle) birth; untitled civilians

    [ Syn: ungentle , untitled ]

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