IGNOBLE
ADJECTIVES
► CURRISH like a cur in nature; snappish, snarling, quarrelsome, mean-spirited, base, ignoble → c1460
► DUNGHILL having a lack of refinement and nobility; not noble, common; rustic, unsophisticated; crude, vulgar → 1548
► DUNGHILLED of low or inferior birth or character; debased or degenerate; ignoble, base → 1600 obs.
► DUNGHILLY characterized by a lack of good breeding; common, vulgar; also, ignoble, base, despicable, dishonourable → 1616 arch.
► HEAN ► HENE mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial → c825 obs.
► NARROW-HEARTED mean, ungenerous, ignoble → c1200
► WAFF low-born, ignoble, without pedigree or honourable connections → 1815 Sc.
NOUNS
► IGNOBLESSE the quality of being ignoble → c1611 obs.
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