He behaved ignobly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : his ignoble purposes. From Dictionary.com.
I am very insignificant, and shall go out ignobly. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
"Henriade" had to hang ignobly about in the crowd at. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Demetrius's response could not be more ignobly brutal. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
‘Shall I hint that it deals with the ignobly decent?’. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Or, more ignobly, perhaps it's a sort of jealousy of genius. From Wordnik.com. [The God Delusion]
Never was warrior so ignobly driven or dragged from a field of victory. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The Arabs on their track rose against them and shot them ignobly as they ran. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
The award was given to an American president now ignobly intent on waging war. From Wordnik.com. [Now WE Must Earn Obama's Nobel!] Reference
What I really aim at is an absolute realism in the sphere of the ignobly decent. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Why should he not do nobly that which journalists did ignobly and without principle?. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
"But they, in themselves, are not solutions - as SADC has just so ignobly demonstrated.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But did the father of Admetus gain much by prolonging his life so ignobly and miserably?. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
The shako tumbled from its precarious perch, and hung ignobly suspended by the cap-lines. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
"Yes, his son, who stands here at my side, ignobly bound and menaced with a shameful death!". From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
And not only has it failed in its management, but it has failed deplorably, ignobly, horribly. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution] Reference
Alas, like many stories of well-intentioned introductions, this one also ends ignobly - so far. From Wordnik.com. [Speedlinking 12/26/07] Reference
This same flag was within a few years ignobly hauled down during the signing of the Convention at. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Give credit to Specter, who behaved ignobly during the Clarence Thomas hearings, for facing reality. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Big 100 Days Accomplishment: Arlen Specter's Defection] Reference
Not in their marble beauty do they thus ignobly impress us, -- but calm, fair, strong, and immortal. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Since, however, you are most ignobly virtuous, I have tried to turn the affair to the best advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The movement of man is ignobly simple, frantic flails of a swimmer, drowning in worry, hurry and usury. From Wordnik.com. [Squirrelville] Reference
Henry's crown ... and it was meet and fitting that he should die ignobly wearing a crown made of paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
The experiment ends ignobly when news of the unauthorized experiment reaches the ears of a Sun reporter. From Wordnik.com. [The Angriest Man In Television] Reference
If we should try, all that would follow would be that we should play a large part ignobly and shamefully. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
For this manly avowal the assembly ignobly refused him the usual marks of respect and honor at his departure. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
His face gave the lie direct to his speech, and his little manœuvre for keeping the earnest-money failed ignobly. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
By examination of its terms, it will be seen how far and how ignobly the Government went on the road to concession. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
When Clinton spoke ignobly of "change you can Xerox," she smiled smugly, but the consensus meters dove toward the 30s. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Kaus: Doesn't Hillary Clinton Use Words Written By Others?] Reference
Half of a fife-rail had been shot through the foresail, and the sky made a patch of glorious blue in the ignobly soiled canvas. From Wordnik.com. [Youth, by Joseph Conrad] Reference
It is thus that ideals die; not in the conventional pageantry of honoured death, but sorrily, ignobly, while one's head is turned. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Maybe Mr. Tenet will get off his duff and protect the Agency people he has ignobly let down in the past, starting with Mrs. McCarthy. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » The Whistleblower Gets Whacked – updated] Reference
She had therefore no reason to endeavour to conquer a passion not ignobly founded; and of which duty, judgment, and conscience, approved. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
He had so longed for our crown … Henry's crown … and it was meet and fitting that he should die ignobly wearing a crown made of paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
‘’Twas thus that an old man in the fifteenth century did his godlike work to the best of his power, and not ignobly, as appears to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Warden] Reference
I hardly wish to grant such people so high a compliment, even one rendered ignobly. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
So far as it was founded on pride, injustice, and selfishness, it ignobly disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
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