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Recent Examples of inglorious
Costner's character was killed off in the opening moments of the back half of Season 5 with an inglorious, bloody bathroom gunshot death made to look like a suicide.
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Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Impeaching Blagojevich Madigan, the longtime Illinois Democratic Party chair, presided over one of the state’s most jarring and historic moments in 2009 when the House voted to impeach his fellow Democrat Rod Blagojevich, the only Illinois governor branded with this inglorious distinction.
—Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
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
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Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Impeaching Blagojevich Madigan, the longtime Illinois Democratic Party chair, presided over one of the state’s most jarring and historic moments in 2009 when the House voted to impeach his fellow Democrat Rod Blagojevich, the only Illinois governor branded with this inglorious distinction.
—Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
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Candidates for the Summit Hill Elementary District 161 Board denounced a note featuring profanity and anti-Muslim sentiment as reprehensible rhetoric from a community member.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Leveraging the dead to score propaganda victories or perpetuate conflict is reprehensible.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 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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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
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The military declares martial law in the town as Daniels and his fellow scientists race to develop a cure, even as the nefarious McClintock schemes to bomb Cedar Creek to smithereens to contain the virus.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
14 Mar. 2025
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Far from going away, fraudsters are expanding the scope of their nefarious initiatives.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ben Stiller even makes a brief cameo as the evil nursing home orderly, Hal.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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The series about six Canadian superheroes saving the world from giant evil robots has an all-Canadian cast that includes Cobie Smulders voicing the role of Niagara Falls, Kevin McDonald as the Canadian prime minister and Charles Demers as Poutine, a French Canadian crime fighter.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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After seasons of trying to stand by his values, taking on the villainous Viltrumite might have been Mark's final push toward embracing the darker side of being a superhero.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Traitors capped off its third season with a victorious blow to its titular characters when four Faithfuls shared the crown after banishing all the villainous Big Brother players in their midst.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2025
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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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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 25 Mar. 2025.
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