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Recent Examples of inglorious
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.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
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And if audiences or critics wish to reach for contemporary parallels drawn from other examples of reprehensible violence?—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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Sins of Kujo, adapted from Shohei Manabe’s manga, casts Yuya Yagira as a morally ambiguous lawyer who defends society’s most reprehensible figures, a dark, adult-skewing legal drama.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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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 the front lines of combat between scientists and bacteria, there's a notorious group of bugs that belong to a nefarious organization known as ESKAPE.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, Johnny Flynn will take on the role of Draco's nefarious father Lucius Malfoy in the series, and Pratt recently praised his new onscreen father to The Hollywood Reporter.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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And what good mischief doesn't begin with a little sinful bite?—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 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,
11 Jan. 2026
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Newcomers to the popular franchise are Greta Lee as the evil Lilypad game tablet and Conan O'Brien playing a hilarious potty training toy called Smarty Pants.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Some cities in China have banned fireworks out of concerns over safety and air pollution, but the measures are controversial as firecrackers, traditionally used to scare off evil spirits, remain central to Lunar New Year celebrations.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
19 Feb. 2026
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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
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Prior to the ceremony, Ceesay joined IndieWire and Lavazza on the blue carpet to discuss his breakout performance as Morrow, the villainous cyborg employed by the Weyland-Yutani corporation.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2026
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Unicorn Island Faces Its Darkest Trial Yet The villainous Ravenzella, the Queen of Grimoria, returns in the new season and Sophia and the Sapphires have to figure out how to defeat her for good.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
18 Feb. 2026
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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 23 Feb. 2026.
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