What is "ignobly"

Usage examples of "ignobly".

That is ignobly passionate chiaroscuro, rejoicing in darkness rather than light.

Windemere would advance to position, look all about in dazed fashion, gather her skirts closely as if about to breast a hurricane, then with a long breath would shut her eyes tightly, and surge forward--when the gromet would either drop ignobly at her feet, or go madly flying off to right or left, perhaps hitting poor little Tegeloo on the nose.

Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye: To these that sober race of men, whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God, Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles Of these fair atheists.

I invoke the Black Fog to smother you, and the Black Rattlesnake to poison you, and the Black Spider to drop down his black thread from above you to wrap up your soul and drag it to the darkening land in the west, and there to bury it in a black coffin under black day so that you will be unable to prevail against the mighty Split Spear of the Deer Clan, and you will fall ignobly and be humiliated before everyone.