ignoble

/ig-NOH-bul/adjective

not honorable in character or purpose

Selling out a friend for a headline is ignoble.
Synonyms
dishonorable, base, shameful
Antonyms
noble, honorable
Memory hook
ig (not) + noble: beneath nobility.

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