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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.
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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.
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Dp Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 July 2025
The Rockies made more inglorious history by setting a franchise nine-inning record with 19 strikeouts.
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Charles Odum,
Chicago Tribune,
15 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for inglorious
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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His poor display of unsportsmanlike conduct was reprehensible.
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Prisons are filled with the faithful and the daily news reports are overflowing with reprehensible, criminal, degenerate theists.
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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.
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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.
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Prosecutors told jurors at trial that the group's actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kits and wearing body armor — were signals of nefarious intent.
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Prosecutors told jurors at trial that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kits and wearing body armor — signaled nefarious intent.
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Critics also have challenged the report’s characterization of cases involving women, contending these were consensual affairs that were sinful but not abusive.
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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.
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There is so much evil and suffering in the world, so much conniving and malicious intent, and the self is, at least, a familiar foe.
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When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
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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.
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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.
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Kara Zor-El (Alcock) goes on a planet-hopping mission to save her beloved Krypto – with young and vengeful girl Ruthye (Eve Ridley) in tow – after he’s poisoned by the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts).
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Supergirl also stars Eve Ridley as Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), a 14-year-old girl who seeks vengeance on the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts) following a family tragedy.
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Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.
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Ancient sacred writings teach us to avoid using unrighteous means to oppose the unrighteous demands of wicked rulers.
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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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