ignobly

English

Etymology

From ignoble +‎ -ly.

Adverb

ignobly (comparative more ignobly, superlative most ignobly)

  1. in an ignoble manner
    • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
      No villanous bounty yet hath past my heart;
      Vnwisely, not ignobly haue I giuen.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 7:
      Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only three men; he must have died of two.
    • 2012, Deirdre M. Pike, Enviro-Toons: Green Themes in Animated Cinema and Television, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, pages 64 and 65:
      For the majority of the film, Homer drifts ignobly from whimsical act to mindless doltery.

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