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Ignobly

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ig·no·ble  (g-nbl)
adj.
1. Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean. See Synonyms at mean2.
2. Not of the nobility; common.
[Middle English, of low birth, from Old French, from Latin ignbilis : i-, in-, not; see in-1 + nbilis, gnbilis, noble; see noble.]
igno·bili·ty (-bl-t), ig·noble·ness n.
ig·nobly adv.
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Adv.1.ignobly - in a currish manner; meanspiritedly; "he behaved ignobly"
currishly


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The unblushing Macdonald, without even endeavouring to exculpate himself from the crime he was charged with, meanly endeavoured to reproach Sophia with ignobly defrauding him of his money .
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Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.
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But the man who ought to have spoken - the man who had such a chance as few men have off the stage - who could have confounded these villains in a breath, and saved the wretched Rattray at once from them and from himself - that unheroic hero remained ignobly silent in his homely hiding-place.
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