inglorious

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Recent Examples of inglorious The inglorious history of these speeches reflects the inglorious nature of the office of the Vice-Presidency. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 The loss of this course is also a loss to those white students who want to learn the history of America in all its glorious and inglorious moments. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024 The encampment was led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group with a long, inglorious history at Vassar, which includes posting a Nazi cartoon on social media and launching BDS campaigns on the eve of significant Jewish holidays. Megan Tallmer, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024 Their recent reckoning with their own inglorious pasts gives them the unique credibility to warn China not to make the same mistake. Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for inglorious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
  • Leveraging the dead to score propaganda victories or perpetuate conflict is reprehensible.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Musk delivered an unmistakable, and reprehensible, fascist salute.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Palestinian leaders rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for its iniquitous terms, but then accepted partition on significantly less advantageous terms in 1988.
    Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
Adjective
  • But what other word applies to Jane (Nicole Brydon Bloom), a character willing to go to great and nefarious measures just to obtain a Wii?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Long Soldier’s poems make clear that the language used in governmental apologies is just as performative as that of the nefarious declarations that attempted (unsuccessfully) to dismantle Plains social structures.
    Melissa Ragain, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Michelle Yeoh Yeoh may be in her villain era, but there's nothing sinful about her Louvre look.
    Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Alternatively, if the foundation knew of warning signs, or should have detected warning signs, Learfield might be less blameworthy.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But Miss Manners acknowledges that there is also the less blameworthy impulse to offer comfort — not just sympathy — when there is no real comfort to be offered.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Fans have long waited to see how the show, produced by Skybound Entertainment, adapts this massive event from Kirkman's comics, which sees Angstrom (Sterling K. Brown) assemble an army of evil Marks from alternate dimensions to lay siege to Earth.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Hot on the trail of a new brood of evil Mogwai, our heroes journey deep into the American West, coming up against new supernatural creatures and picking up a few mysterious characters along the way.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • One such force is the villainous cartoon Mr. Ring-a-Ding (voiced by Alan Cumming), who is shown breaking out of a movie theater screen to terrorize a 1950s audience.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
  • With his versatile range, Hackman took on famous roles, from tough guy parts to villainous characters, heroes and even a coach.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
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
  • He’s gone through buzzard-hot streaks and some slumps, at times taking wholly unrighteous shots, and none of that matters to the shooting guard.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021

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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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