inglorious

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Recent Examples of inglorious One was needed with a narrow temperature range; in Helm’s case, inglorious British maritime. Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 Beyond his inglorious past, though, Hegseth and his Quantico speech should not be dismissed merely as meme fodder. 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 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.
    Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Along the way, gamers will investigate strange planets, derelict spaceships, Remnant Era Celestial technology, and the nefarious posthumans.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 June 2026
  • Amazingly, Richard Nixon, the most nefarious American political personality of the 1970s, appears to be making a comeback, at least online.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Adjective
  • Naim and his overly anxious single mom (Mia Wasikowska) attend rote church services in which the pastor looks to exorcise the LGBTQ+ from sinful boys who like boys and girls who like girls.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Bowing down and worshiping an idol is sinful.
    Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • Zoroastrianism’s core tenets – a single God, the cosmic struggle between good and evil – are widely believed by historians to have formed the theological groundwork for the major Abrahamic religions.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • Not all devices are evil, the toys realize, and even the best machines—like even the best toys—will eventually break down and get tossed aside for a shiny new model.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Supergirl also stars Jason Momoa as DC anti-hero Lobo and Matthias Schoenaerts as the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills, while Eve Ridley plays Supergirl’s ally Ruthye Marye Knoll.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The summer blockbuster, which premieres June 26, will follow Supergirl's three-day mission to obtain a cure for her superdog and friend, Krypto, who is poisoned by villainous alien Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts).
    Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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 23 Jun. 2026.

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