inglorious

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Recent Examples of inglorious 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 And yet, despite this inglorious end, the participants considered the pavilion a triumph. IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2020 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • 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
  • All hate crimes are reprehensible.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
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
  • Another legend explains how in the distant past, the nefarious Lake Nyos was formed from the decomposing body of a Kom chief whose people had been tricked and murdered by the Bamessi tribe.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Obsessives spot nefarious clues when the film is slowed down, frame by frame, and looked at in close-up.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • But being evil aliens wasn't always on the cards.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Even the woman Larry falls for, Gwen (Evelyn Ankers), isn't immune to the animal's evil charms, and the creature nearly chokes the life out of her in one scene.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The final scene of Gen V season 2 sees the young supes of Godolkin University now on the run after Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) exploded the school's villainous founder Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), but they've been given a new purpose.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Season 2 of The Boys spinoff saw the superpowered college students in a battle against Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), the villainous namesake of their school.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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