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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
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Charlie Kirk's murder is sick and reprehensible, and our thoughts are with his family, children, and loved ones.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Political violence in all forms is unacceptable and reprehensible.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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In a 2004 study, the United States Institute of Peace said that hundreds of terrorist groups had migrated online, utilizing a tool meant for better communication for often nefarious purposes.—
Richard Frankel,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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For example, the agency might become corrupt and those running AGI start to use the AGI for their own nefarious purposes.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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In an important variation, medieval soldiers returning from war regularly spent an extended period of penance in monasteries – a recognition of Catholicism’s teaching that any war is inherently sinful.—
Timothy Gabrielli,
The Conversation,
25 Aug. 2025
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Don’t dream of leaving without ordering a gigantic slice of the coconut cake with cream cheese frosting—sinful and certainly comforting.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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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
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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
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The inexcusable, evil acts of an individual.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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He and his followers were locked in a battle with an enemy that was not just ideologically opposed but unwell, possibly evil.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In The Three Amigos, a trio of American actors who have played heroic gunslingers in a series of popular silent films, are accidentally hired by the villagers of Santa Poco to protect them from the villainous bandit leader, El Guapo, who kidnaps a beautiful villager to be his unwilling bride.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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And his role in the latter is a villainous one — similar to his turn in 2023's The Fall of the House of Usher, which Life of Chuck director Mike Flanagan also helmed.—
Jen Juneau,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
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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
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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 18 Sep. 2025.
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