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IGNOBLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ignobly mean?
• IGNOBLY (adverb)
The adverb IGNOBLY has 1 sense:
1. in a currish manner; meanspiritedly
Familiarity information: IGNOBLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a currish manner; meanspiritedly
Synonyms:
currishly; ignobly
Context example:
he behaved ignobly
Pertainym:
ignoble (completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose)
Context examples
In bidding adieu to the modern Babylon, where we have undergone many vicissitudes, I trust not ignobly, Mrs. Micawber and myself cannot disguise from our minds that we part, it may be for years and it may be for ever, with an individual linked by strong associations to the altar of our domestic life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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