inglorious

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • 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
  • The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 24 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • Some situations are more nefarious.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • Gettin’ sinful all of a sudden.
    David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Athena does a sapphire evil-eye look that is super-duper polished.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Even all of us people who hated the evil empire of Brady-Bill Belichick can’t help but secretly respect this version of the Patriots.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 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
  • Much like the character that brought him instant fame, Waltz loves the gamesmanship that comes with a villainous turn.
    William Earl, Variety, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The film will also see Downey make his return to the MCU as the villainous Doctor Doom.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 14 Feb. 2026.

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