But regarded purelyfrom the standpoint of blood, such a development was profoundly unfortunate: more and more, the nobility lost the racial basis for its existence, andin large measure the designation of 'ignobility' would have been more suitablefor it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mein Kampf]

What wasn't publicized was the ignobility of young Merritt's poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference

Of course, that conflict had as much ignobility and moral ambiguity as any.    From Wordnik.com.  [We'll Meet Again] Reference

He would have long to brood on the ignobility he has brought to himself and his tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skrayling Tree]

Trent would be forced to assume some menial occupation, working out his days in ignobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week To Go] Reference

I cannot get enough of Gods falling from their thrones and tumbling, like scarred dice, to the flames of ignobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susie Bright: That Dog Won't Hunt, But He Sure is Kinky] Reference

Dire academic punishments were threatened to students who made "odious comparisons of country to country, nobility to ignobility, Faculty to Faculty.".    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

This week on the most excellent Pseudopod horror podcast, David Nickle's fantastic story "The Inevitability of Earth," a tale about the ignobility of those who would fly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Guantanamo is a monument of abomination and ignobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Gloria's Enchanted Kingdom] Reference

His ignobility or unworthiness was turned into sublimity and height.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 5] Reference

Huacho skillfully captures the ignobility of work in the modern age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evening Class] Reference

Alice was too noble herself to entertain suspicions of the ignobility of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Butterfly House] Reference

There was a courage in this which he could not appreciate; the ignobility of his cowardice wholly occupying him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ebb-Tide] Reference

But this poor creature is made with her bleared blind eyes to fall into the very lowest depths of feminine ignobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thackeray] Reference

Public figures, political candidates and office holders cannot claim the same protections from depictions of ignobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest on Air America] Reference

Use a term free of the clerical connotations, on the one hand; of the suggestion of gross-ness, coarseness, ignobility, on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatism] Reference

Strip mercy of ruin to its author, before you affirm upon a judicial punishment of death (as then it was) cruelty in the adviser or ignobility in the approver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

She also frequently reproached Herod's sister and wives with the ignobility of their descent; and that they were every one chosen by him for their beauty, but not for their family.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem] Reference

A tragic symbol it seemed to me of the ignobility of man's nature, that he will be a slave in all the loftier aspects of living if he can but retain his freedom for his vices and corruptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Endless Night] Reference

The baseness and incorrigible ignobility of the Oriental mind is seen in the radical inability to appreciate justice when brought into collision with the royal privileges of rulers that represent the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

A lie, whose very uselessness and ignobility had defeated its purpose -- a lie that implied the basest suspicion of her own independence and truthfulness -- such a lie now stood out as plainly before her as his guilty face.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sappho of Green Springs] Reference

And now, in the latest bit of ignobility we're expected to swallow, we have accusations that a school district has been taking pictures of kids in their bedrooms using state-issued laptops that said kids were required to accept in order to pass their high school classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

In the 19th century, the first defect was adopted as a target by the Left in promoting socialism and communism, which claimed to cure selfishness, and the second defect was adopted by the Right as its target, which later came to be fascism and Nazism, claiming to cure ignobility and mediocrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference

In sum, conservatives, as defenders of liberalism, are aware of its defects, which are, to repeat, too much reliance on self-interest, causing liberal principles to be vulnerable to charges of selfishness from the Left and ignobility from the Right, and the related reliance of liberalism on big government and rational control.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference

Evidently, men endowed with gravity and grace are indeed men of sterling virtues: for while gravity signifies an external austere mien devoid of empty flamboyance, arrogance and ignobility radiating rays of and oozing out great achievements, grace resonates with an inward, internal guilelessness, saintliness and morally uprightness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard] Reference

Since the existence of the universe depends upon the continuance of this unfathomable struggle and since the absolute victory of life over death, of love over malice, of truth over falsehood, of beauty over hideousness and of nobility over ignobility, would mean that the universe would end, are we therefore forced to the conclusion that evil is necessary to the fuller manifestation of good?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complex Vision] Reference

An institution for the higher education of young girls in particular should be free of such ignobility. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference

But behind it was every sort of beaten, desolate envy: the envy of the happy which is felt by the unhappy: the envy of the woman who has a strong and glorious man which is felt by the woman who cannot disguise from herself that in her arms lies weakness and ignobility: the envy of one to whom love has come as love which is felt by one to whom it has come as a deception and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

"It is almost an axiom that no man may make a career in politics without stooping to such ignobility: it is as necessary as a loud voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

She might have called them her good and her evil demon; for she knew, that is, she had it somewhere about her, but did not look it out, that it was her own cowardice and concealment, her own falseness to the traditional, never failing courage of her house, her ignobility, and unfitness to represent the Colonsays -- her double dealing in short, that had made the marchioness in her own right the slave of her woman, the rebuked of her groom!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marquis of Lossie] Reference