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Recent Examples of inglorious
The Rockies made more inglorious history by setting a franchise nine-inning record with 19 strikeouts.
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Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Hull City had begun the day in the bottom three, with Luton Town, Preston North End, Derby County and Stoke City fearful of an inglorious fall to English football’s third tier.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The conventionally dramatic moments of the day, noon and midnight, are interwoven with the mute, inglorious ones—two-thirty-one, eleven-thirty-two—all permanently mucilaged together.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The family pardons, in particular, seemed an inglorious way for the outgoing president to depart.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
Hull City had begun the day in the bottom three, with Luton Town, Preston North End, Derby County and Stoke City fearful of an inglorious fall to English football’s third tier.
—Nick Miller, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The conventionally dramatic moments of the day, noon and midnight, are interwoven with the mute, inglorious ones—two-thirty-one, eleven-thirty-two—all permanently mucilaged together.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
The family pardons, in particular, seemed an inglorious way for the outgoing president to depart.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
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So to be there, back in my home state, to cover something that was just so unthinkable, reprehensible, that's always stayed with me, just talking to people in the days and hours after that tragedy.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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All hate crimes are reprehensible.—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
7 Oct. 2025
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Our community is small, and when someone like Scott comes along, we are comforted and start growing confidence that perhaps the city administration will look back at the iniquitous history that left us landless in our own homeland.—
Richard B. Williams,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025
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That morning, on the day of his exam, looking up at the stone façades, Gabriel suddenly realized that this was a place that existed not despite but because of the iniquitous history exhibited here.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
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Elphaba, meanwhile, uncovering the Wizard and Madame Morrible's nefarious plot, defies them all — and gravity in the process — breaking out of the Emerald City on broomstick and whizzing off into sunset.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
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In the absence of a plan—even a nefarious one—the immense power of the federal government is getting distributed to all the president’s radical men.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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There have long been debates in churches about whether just listening to worldly music was sinful, let alone playing it.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
18 Oct. 2025
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No one knows the cake’s origin, but people like to offer theories on its name: Some say the word devil is a nod to the sinful dark chocolate, reminiscent of devil’s food cake.—
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
22 Sep. 2025
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Like terrestrial monsters, evil aliens are often stand-ins for real-life anxieties.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Thia was sent to this dread planet by the Weyland-Yutani corporation, the famously evil entity that haunts most of the Alien movies.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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As the shutdown goes on, moreover, the polling on which side is more to blame seems to be gradually shifting toward Democrats as the more blameworthy side.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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His Stoic Challenge framework invites you to see a setback not as something terrible, blameworthy or unfair but instead as a test of your ingenuity and resilience.—
Hanna Hart,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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These classic glazed donut holes have been dipped in pink-and-green icing, paying homage to the villainous and heroic forces of Oz.—
Amanda Greenwood,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dynevor, meanwhile, finds texture in a villainous role that rightly reminds us how petty personal grievances (on campus, no less) may well be the driving force behind the most outspoken political provocateurs.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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Spears writes of these unrighteous men matter-of-factly, avoiding the ad hominem attack, except for an occasional delicious arrow, including a recollection of the eternally white Timberlake meeting one of his rap heroes.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2023
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Christ himself suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous one on behalf of the unrighteous.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
8 Feb. 2023
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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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