What is the meaning of ignoble?

adjective

  • 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.
  • Not of the nobility.
    • usage: "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"
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