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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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Insider trading is prohibited by the CFTC under the Commodity Exchange Act, but some lawmakers and former commission regulators fear the advent of prediction markets — like Kalshi and Polymarket — require new laws to prevent nefarious bets on politics, military action and policy.—
Luke Garrett,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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One of them, Elle (Sophie Thatche), is haunted by a nefarious murderer, the Leather Man, who is offing women around the city.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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Bowing down and worshiping an idol is sinful.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2026
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Efficiency is religion, and turnovers are almost sinful.—
Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
Adjective
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There’s a strong sense that Feito’s novel got more mileage out of such questions as who is truly sane or insane and whether evil exists in all of us.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The Gunslinger versus the evil Rancher (or space crime syndicate bosses, as the case may be).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
22 May 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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According to Alessandro Usielli, head of Ford global brand entertainment, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Ford have all worked with the Bond franchise to introduce new models by providing cars for the superspy, his coterie of comely conquests and his villainous adversaries.—
Brett Berk,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
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The veteran character actor also played the villainous Maj.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 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 26 May. 2026.
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