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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
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His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.—
Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
7 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
Adjective
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These are among at least 10 individuals connected to sensitive US nuclear and aerospace research who have died or disappeared in recent years, prompting concerns whether they are connected and fueling speculation online about the possibility of nefarious activity.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN Money,
21 Apr. 2026
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Like every technological innovation AI going to be used for virtuous and nefarious things, but in terms of criminal activity experts say the scale and sophistication of fraud has accelerated.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Christian moralists thundered against the sinful pleasures of watching naked female flesh at the Spectacles.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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His father, who believes Sammie's music to be sinful, orders him to drop the guitar, but Sammie can't do it.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The actors sprang to life, staging a lurid scene in which an evil mistress named Selina frames the heroine for killing her unborn child.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Clearly, the Iranian regime is evil.—
Tom Jurkowsky,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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The cast also includes Matthias Schoenaerts, as the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills, and Jason Momoa — Aquaman in the old DCEU — as Lobo.—
Mark Meszoros,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
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Muldoon rose to fame playing Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives from 1992 to 1995, and portrayed the villainous Richard Hart in Melrose Place for three seasons.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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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 27 Apr. 2026.
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