inglorious

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Recent Examples of inglorious Those who will paint this as an inglorious sign-off to an inglorious career aren’t looking hard enough. Jack Lang, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025 But why was she chosen for this inglorious end? Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024 Costner's character was killed off in the opening moments of the back half of Season 5 with an inglorious, bloody bathroom gunshot death made to look like a suicide. Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024 Impeaching Blagojevich Madigan, the longtime Illinois Democratic Party chair, presided over one of the state’s most jarring and historic moments in 2009 when the House voted to impeach his fellow Democrat Rod Blagojevich, the only Illinois governor branded with this inglorious distinction. Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • Of the $15 million that the jury awarded Depp, $5 million was in punitive damages aimed to punish Heard for especially reprehensible conduct.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Whereas Serena could easily have emerged as a one-note villain, from the beginning of her tenure on the series, Strahovski has imbued Serena with a soulfulness that often puts the audience uncomfortably on her side, despite her reprehensible actions.
    Scarlett Harris, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Whether these changes are intentional or nefarious isn’t necessarily the question.
    Mika Newton, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Given that DeSantis graduated from both Yale and Harvard, to issue such an order implies either illness or deeply nefarious intent.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The sinful acts on display here are a direct result of that disenfranchisement, an effort to reclaim what is still owed, forty acres and a mule, with interest.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Pope Gregory, believing these demons to be an indication of Magdalene’s excessively sinful past, identified her as an unnamed woman in Luke who wipes Jesus’ feet with her hair.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But Miss Manners acknowledges that there is also the less blameworthy impulse to offer comfort — not just sympathy — when there is no real comfort to be offered.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • But Miss Manners acknowledges that there is also the less blameworthy impulse to offer comfort — not just sympathy — when there is no real comfort to be offered.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Will the company itself go rogue and opt to use AGI for evil deeds?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • During the Harry Potter segment, projections magically turn the ceiling into a night sky before the villainous Dementors fly past the moon and onto the surrounding buildings.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Based on the 2010 Marvel Comics series Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of our Feathers, the game will see Captain America teaming up with Black Panther to stop the rise of the villainous group Hydra.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 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
  • He’s gone through buzzard-hot streaks and some slumps, at times taking wholly unrighteous shots, and none of that matters to the shooting guard.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021

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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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