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Перевод: ignoble

[прилагательное]
подлый; низкий; постыдный; низкого происхождения; простонародный

Тезаурус:

1. Ignoble
2. Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems, the call went up for a leader who would, in the words of one Bioscope editorial, be able "to make order out of disorder, to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand, tactfully and helpfully, yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives.".
3. He makes it clear that he believes "that there are higher civilizations and lower ones"; the notion of Empire is "not necessarily an ignoble one" when it is founded on "the notion of extending law, justice, humanity and civilization - with no other interest than glory, and no other motive than a sense of vocation".
4. The decision to fall into line was not made for ignoble reasons, but from financial necessity.
5. He addressed to the mirror a few noble lines of the ignoble king.
6. That English tradition of the amateur is of course a long one, and by no means ignoble, reaching back as it does through John Morley to Walter Bagehot, to Burke, to Addison, and so all the way to Philip Sidney and the Renaissance all-round man.
7. The face of Marion Russell is absent, and Robyn cannot suppress a tiny, ignoble twinge of resentment at this ungrateful desertion.
8. Ignoble creature that I am!
9. The Nobel Peace Prize winner lies ignoble and dead upon the lone and level sands of Egypt.
10. While it's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies, and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle, nevertheless the reader's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin, Stepan's patroness, when she hisses at him on his deathbed "you futile, futile, ignoble, chickenhearted, always, always futile man".
11. Scott was "the victim of a combination of envious rivals as selfish as it is ignoble".
12. This thought had crossed Robyn's mind before, but she had suppressed it as ignoble.
13. The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade: ignorance.