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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "inglorious" in a sentence

    inglorious example sentences

    inglorious


    1. The doctor has no wish to introduce Helen to his inglorious but necessary recent past


    2. He would be redeemed with the bosses, particularly when the fingerprint ID came in confirming his identity as a wanted murderer but undoubtedly, Edgar would be shuffled back to obscurity, listening to scum inform on scum, while being locked out of even those inglorious arrests


    3. It seemed ironic that some vase or statue could survive that long and come to an inglorious end, smashed by people behaving badly


    4. We are loath to go back down to the inglorious world


    5. 5 "As long as there is a chance that the Jews will turn to my Father and seek salvation, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will keep his hands of mercy outstretched toward you; but when you have once filled up your cup of impenitence, and when once you have finally rejected my Father's mercy, this nation will be left to its own counsels, and it shall speedily come to an inglorious end


    6. ’’ Said Marguerite, expecting some inglorious story


    7. The inglorious, rotting end; that thief of futures and robber of memories sent shivers down spines and raised hackles with frustration


    8. And the story of a messianic Jesus would have ended with his inglorious execution among thieves had it not been for one unfounded claim


    9. On the other hand the Brahmans, the authors of the Aryan caste system that inflicted grievous wounds on the body polity of the grand land, continued to hold sway over the Hindu social consciousness with their intellectual savvy and religious orthodoxy that is well after the Arabs had resigned to their inglorious fate


    10. I was made for contest and the powers have willed that my battlefield shall be the dingy inglorious one of the bed and medicine bottle

    11. So that was the end of Priscilla's fortnight,--according to the way you look at it glorious or inglorious


    12. To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which he never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding: while for such that, having lost all forbearance, can lose no more, there remained the sharp antidote of experience to cause their insolency to beat a precipitate and inglorious retreat


    13. A man is judged then, and his time reckoned good or inglorious, by whether he had to fight his way through men and women en masse, or mostly men, mostly women, or, the worst, children at the flypaper matinees


    14. That afternoon, after the inglorious burial of the General Section, Uncle Leo XII asked Florentino Ariza where he had found Leona Cassiani, and he answered with the truth


    15. Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is


    16. Though so short a period ago—not a good lifetime—the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan


    17. «How could he think that my love had so short a memory! How could he think that all these inglorious men could ever reduce a heart into which his name (Hernani's) has entered, to lesser loves, though nobler in their eyes!»


    18. A country so weak that it is inglorious to attack it; and a country so strong that we can never take it


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    Synonyms for "inglorious"

    inglorious black disgraceful ignominious opprobrious shameful appalling undignified degrading offensive humiliating

    "inglorious" definitions

    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame


    not bringing honor and glory