ignobly
- r in a currish manner; meanspiritedly
he behaved ignobly
- For more than five hours, the huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay.
- Dozens of passenger trains were canceled, and their high-wheeled engines ignobly coupled to strings of empty boxcars.
- Having failed so ignobly to pull off a general strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different.