| He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths. |
| The entire venture was an ignoble failure, calling forth from Bernard a passionate lament over the sins of the crusaders. |
| At the sight of them a rude, equally animal resentment rises in me, compounded of shame, fear, and ignoble joy not to be one of them. |
| In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests. |
| The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. |
| The story of native residential schools is an ignoble chapter in Canadian history. |
