ignoble

adj.

卑鄙的；可耻的；出身低微的；地位低下的

1. Some very great men have come from ignoble families.
   有些伟人出身低微。
2. He is an ignoble man.
   他是一个卑鄙的小人。
3. He has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
   完成了他份内要做的所有工作，怕死就有点儿卑鄙和不光彩了。

From the Ignoble to the Sublime
Ignoble savages and other European visions:
An Ignoble Approach to Large Field Inflation
Ignoble Trails - Where Crossover Is Provably Harmful
The ignoble art of cheating in scientific publications
The Ignoble Savage: American Literary Racism, 1790-1890
Social science and the ignoble savage
Ignoble Savages and Other European Visions: The La Pérouse Affair in Samoan History
"An ignoble form of cannibalism": reflections on the Pittsburgh protocol for procuring organs from non-heart-beating cadavers.
Case Study: a bold new approach to awareness and education, and how it met an ignoble fate