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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
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Releasing an old video, which conveniently omits context, on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Releasing an old video, which conveniently omits context, on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
20 Mar. 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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The robotic characters break free from their restaurant resting place to cause chaos in town, while the villainous Marionette pops up to possess victims for her own nefarious purposes.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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Certainly, the association with Jeffrey Epstein is not especially helpful for debunking something nefarious.—
Mike Rothschild,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 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,
12 Mar. 2026
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The least sinful states in 2026 Wyoming was ranked the least sinful state in 2026, followed by New Hampshire, Idaho, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, Utah, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
25 Feb. 2026
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After tracking it down almost two decades later, Prince Adam is whisked back across space to defend his home planet against the evil forces of Skeletor.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2026
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Black is reprising his role as the sassy, if evil, Bowser in the sequel.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 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
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Universal Studios Hollywood visitors will be cast as extras in a monster movie that goes off the rails when a villainous character known as The Phantom Director unleashes Universal Monsters such as Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf Man during the park’s Universal Fan Fest Nights.—
Jeffrey Miller,
Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Sinners’ very own vampire Jack O'Connell went in character with dark sunglasses and prosthetic fangs on the red carpet, perhaps still in character as his role as villainous Remmick.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
17 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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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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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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