Adjective : his ignoble purposes.    From Dictionary.com. 

"ignobleness" of seriously trying the reverse, and of lying with its very tongue, what are we to expect?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

For a brief instant she sensed dimly the ignobleness of her jealousy of his daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Therefore, said Handwan, he must mind that he did not rob of his empire the man with whom he sought alliance, nor bespatter her with the filth of ignobleness whom he desired to honour with marriage: else he would tarnish the honour of the union with covetousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

This is faint-heartedness and cowardice, ignobleness and unmanliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians] Reference

There was an ignobleness in it -- a self-absorption which was almost dishonour.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality] Reference

Could she live with such a man without sooner or later taking a taint of his ignobleness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emancipated] Reference

Tintoret cannot stand the ignobleness; it is unendurably repulsive and discomfiting to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Paths] Reference

No unkindness, suspicion, or ignobleness of any sort, ever interrupted or mixed in the affection of these high friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friendships of Women] Reference

The barrenness and ignobleness of the more usual laborer's life consist in the fact that it is moved by no such ideal inner springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

You are bitter against the average man for his low morality; but that fault, on the whole, is directly traceable to the ignobleness of women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference

For ignobleness cannot, by the nature of it, choose the noble: no, there needs a seeing man who is himself noble, cognizant by internal experience of the symptoms of nobleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latter-Day Pamphlets] Reference

So closely is it packed in among buildings which suggest nothing but the sordid struggle for existence, that it looks depressed, ashamed, tainted by the ignobleness of its surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

The figure of Joachim is singularly beautiful in its pensiveness and slow motion; and the ignobleness of the herdsmen's figures is curiously marked in opposition to the dignity of their master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel] Reference

Jean-Baptiste over-valued it, or as if some ignobleness or blunder, some sign that he has really missed his aim, started into sight from his work at the sound of praise -- as if such praise could hardly be altogether sincere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Imaginary Portraits] Reference

But by how much this feeling is noble when it is justified by the strength of its cause, by so much it is ignoble when there is not cause enough for it; and beyond all other ignobleness is the mere affectation of it, in hardness of heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference

And so it comes about, that a man measures everything by his own foot-rule; that if he is ignoble, all the ignobleness that is in the world looks out upon him, and claims kindred with him; if noble, all the nobleness in the world does the like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference

It were impossible for a wife, knowing her husband to be innocent, and resenting the ignobleness of a government which would thus refuse to a self-surrendered prisoner the courtesies the law allows to the lowest of criminals, to rest passively under conditions so alarming.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference