inglorious

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Recent Examples of inglorious Beyond his inglorious past, though, Hegseth and his Quantico speech should not be dismissed merely as meme fodder. Arman Khan, Them., 3 Oct. 2025 Stories like the closest, about inglorious grunt work and uncommon sacrifice, are everywhere in the NFL; tales that calcify with each retelling until the truth of this coach or that executive’s rise becomes inseparable from myth. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025 What an inglorious end to a program that benefited so many young people during its formative and early years. Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 16 July 2025 The Rockies made more inglorious history by setting a franchise nine-inning record with 19 strikeouts. Charles Odum, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.
    Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Prisons are filled with the faithful and the daily news reports are overflowing with reprehensible, criminal, degenerate theists.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Propaganda, in the 1920s and 1930s, was not seen as a nefarious concept.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Now, in return for the $300 million investment that will keep Hypergnosis afloat, Carl expects immediate benefits from Duncan’s nefarious data-collection operation.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Efficiency is religion, and turnovers are almost sinful.
    Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • Christian moralists thundered against the sinful pleasures of watching naked female flesh at the Spectacles.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Specifically, carapaces spelling out 8647, which is either shell-speak for evil intent or a bartender telling Patel to 86 his personal booze and buy a drink already.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
  • The story is built around Kitana’s childhood trauma of losing her father to the evil Shao Kahn (Martyn Ford), who has taken over her home realm of Edenia, enslaving her mother as his zombie consort, Sindel (Ana Thu Nguyen).
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • Extreme cold made the O-rings fail, but NASA’s culture was just as blameworthy and needed a retrofit more urgently than any piece of shuttle hardware.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
Adjective
  • Joaquin Phoenix's villainous performance as the tyrannical emperor Commodus earned him an Academy Award nomination.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • Subsequent toy lines added more sci-fi elements and introduced Evil-Lyn, Teela’s counterpart; Faker, He-Man’s villainous clone; and Tri-Klops and Trap-Jaw, Skeletor’s assistants, among others.
    Sanat Pai RaikarAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 May 2026
Adjective
  • Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Ancient sacred writings teach us to avoid using unrighteous means to oppose the unrighteous demands of wicked rulers.
    Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026

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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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