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disgraceful
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
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  1. Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
  2. Causing or characterized by disgrace; shameful
  3. Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
mean
Miserly; stingy:
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  1. Miserly; stingy:
  2. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
  3. Ignoble; base:
dishonorable
Lacking integrity; unprincipled.
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  1. Lacking integrity; unprincipled.
  2. Lacking respect or ethical principles
  3. Without honor, or causing dishonor
mean
Miserly; stingy:
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  1. Miserly; stingy:
  2. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
  3. Ignoble; base:
base
Containing such metals:
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  1. Containing such metals:
  2. Forming a base
  3. Having or showing little or no honor, courage, or decency; mean; ignoble; contemptible
abject
Of the lowest degree; miserable; wretched
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  1. Of the lowest degree; miserable; wretched
  2. Thoroughgoing; complete. Used to modify pejorative nouns:
  3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched:
base
(Archaic) Of low birth, rank, or position.
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  1. (Archaic) Of low birth, rank, or position.
  2. Having or showing little or no honor, courage, or decency; mean; ignoble; contemptible
  3. Having the low feudal status of villein
low
Below average in degree, intensity, or amount:
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  1. Below average in degree, intensity, or amount:
  2. Violating standards of morality or decency; base:
  3. Mean; despicable; contemptible
low-down
Gloomy; depressed.
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  1. Gloomy; depressed.
  2. (Idiomatic, slang, US) Of no value.
  3. Despicable; base:
mean
Low in value, rank, or social status:
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  1. Low in value, rank, or social status:
  2. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
  3. Ignoble; base:
sordid
Dirty or filthy:
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  1. Dirty or filthy:
  2. Dirty; filthy
  3. Base; ignoble; mean
squalid
Wretched; miserable; sordid
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  1. Wretched; miserable; sordid
  2. Dirty or deteriorated, especially from poverty or lack of care.
  3. Foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions
vile
Highly disagreeable or most inferior; very bad: a generalized term of disapproval
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  1. Highly disagreeable or most inferior; very bad: a generalized term of disapproval
  2. Morally base or evil; wicked; depraved; sinful
  3. Degrading; low; mean
baseborn
Ignoble; contemptible.
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  1. Ignoble; contemptible.
  2. Of humble birth or origin
  3. Mean or ignoble in character or spirit
common
Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint:
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  1. Belonging equally to or shared equally by two or more; joint:
  2. Widespread; prevalent:
  3. Not distinguished by superior or noteworthy characteristics; average:
humble
Showing deferential or submissive respect:
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  1. Showing deferential or submissive respect:
  2. Having or showing a consciousness of one's defects or shortcomings; not overly proud; not self-assertive; modest
  3. Low in condition, rank, or position; lowly; unpretentious
lowly
Of or suited to a low position or rank
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  1. Of or suited to a low position or rank
  2. Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
  3. Ordinary; commonplace
mean
(Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
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  1. (Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
  2. Common or poor in appearance; shabby:
  3. Ignoble; base:
plebeian
Commonplace; ordinary
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  1. Commonplace; ordinary
  2. Of or characteristic of the lower class in ancient Rome or of the common people in any country
  3. Vulgar, coarse, or common
unwashed
Not washed; unclean.
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  1. Not washed; unclean.
  2. Not washed; dirty, soiled, etc.
  3. Common; plebeian:
vulgar
Characterized by a lack of culture, refinement, taste, restraint, sensitivity, etc.; coarse; crude; boorish
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  1. Characterized by a lack of culture, refinement, taste, restraint, sensitivity, etc.; coarse; crude; boorish
  2. Designating, of, or in the popular, or vernacular, speech
  3. Of, characteristic of, belonging to, or common to the great mass of people in general; common; popular
base
(Chemistry) Any of a class of compounds that form hydroxyl ions (OH) when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with acids to form salts. Bases turn red litmus paper blue and have a pH greater than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a bitter taste.
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  1. (Chemistry) Any of a class of compounds that form hydroxyl ions (OH) when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with acids to form salts. Bases turn red litmus paper blue and have a pH greater than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a bitter taste.
  2. The number that is raised to a particular power in a given mathematical expression. In the expression an, a is the base.
  3. Having or showing little or no honor, courage, or decency; mean; ignoble; contemptible
Find another word for ignoble. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ignoble, like: disgraceful, mean, dishonorable, mean, base, abject, corrupt, mean, shameful, wicked and humble.

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  • The character of the first Medician pope shows a peculiar mixture of noble and ignoble qualities.

  • This, which is now chiefly used in the sense of inferior, low, ignoble, or of avaricious, penurious, "stingy," meant originally that which is common to more persons or things than one.

  • to) The gist of it, omitting a few repetitions, is as follows: "There are two aims which he who has given up the world ought not to follow after - devotion, on the one hand, to those things whose attractions depend upon the passions, a low and pagan ideal, fit only for the worldly-minded, ignoble, unprofitable, and the practice on the other hand of asceticism, which is painful, ignoble, unprofitable.

  • A second type of hedonism - less ignoble, but perhaps also less logical - calls men to seek the happiness of others.

  • Mining times in California brought out some of the most ignoble and some of the best traits of American character.

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