Definition of inglorious in English:

inglorious

adjective ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsɪnˈɡlɔriəs

1(of an action or situation) causing shame or a loss of honour.
an inglorious episode in British imperial history
Example sentencesExamples
- Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades.
- Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past.
- Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances.
- It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche.
- For the Broncos, it was an inglorious end to a disappointing season.
- There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December.
- Rather than casting their community as blameless victims in every conflict, traveller leaders might win greater public sympathy by being more upfront about the complex and often inglorious realities of traveller life.
- The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride.
- But there is a chance that he may still have useful information, and that when the adrenalin wears off after an inglorious period in jail he could divulge it; he certainly won't if he is dead.
- I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
- Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
- English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them.
- If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history.
- ‘Threw it away years ago,’ Bond shrugs, an inglorious admission he mutters into a year's growth of beard.
- During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe.
- Yet alongside these inglorious examples, America also has a tradition of waging war for honorable reasons that it could offer to the world as legitimate grounds for making war.
- It was two of our southern neighbours, with only the most tangential connections to this country, who saved the manager and arguably the inflicting of one of the worst embarrassments in our long and inglorious football history.
- I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme.
- Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.
- But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure.
Synonyms
shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, unheroic, undignified, wretched, shabby
scandalous, shocking
2Not famous or renowned.
inglorious though the peasants may have been, this is not synonymous with mute
Example sentencesExamples
- In very truth the sole punishment of ill-livers is an inglorious obscurity
- The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity.
- His women reflect ‘silences’ that represent ‘mute inglorious beings’ whose waking hours are a struggle for survival.

Derivatives

ingloriously

adverb ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsliɪnˈɡlɔriəsli

Anyway, what began historically on 25 December 800, when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor, ended ingloriously on 6 August 1806.
Example sentencesExamples
- Eventually we were released, crawling ingloriously to freedom through a dumb waiter.
- The British Empire in India ended ingloriously in 1948.
- As soon as he could, Delacroix painted the unspeakable: a soldier stretched out ingloriously between two dead horses on a battlefield abandoned by Marshal Marmont.
- Keeling over, he toppled ingloriously at her feet.

ingloriousness

noun ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsnəsɪnˈɡlɔriəsnəs

Some critics felt that Starling had over-reached himself in trying to portray a society on the edge of anarchy in all its ingloriousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- Is the glory of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs a foil of depression and ingloriousness in this world, to set it off?
- Ultimately, touchingly, Adams delineates the ingloriousness that lay in the shadows of Wilbur and Orville's ingeniousness and vision.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin inglorius (from in- (expressing negation) + gloria 'glory') + -ous.

Definition of inglorious in US English:

inglorious

adjectiveɪnˈɡlɔriəsinˈɡlôrēəs

1(of an action or situation) causing shame or a loss of honor.
the events are inglorious and culminate in a vicious gang crime
Example sentencesExamples
- For the Broncos, it was an inglorious end to a disappointing season.
- If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history.
- I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
- Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances.
- Yet alongside these inglorious examples, America also has a tradition of waging war for honorable reasons that it could offer to the world as legitimate grounds for making war.
- But there is a chance that he may still have useful information, and that when the adrenalin wears off after an inglorious period in jail he could divulge it; he certainly won't if he is dead.
- Rather than casting their community as blameless victims in every conflict, traveller leaders might win greater public sympathy by being more upfront about the complex and often inglorious realities of traveller life.
- Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.
- Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past.
- ‘Threw it away years ago,’ Bond shrugs, an inglorious admission he mutters into a year's growth of beard.
- During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe.
- I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme.
- It was two of our southern neighbours, with only the most tangential connections to this country, who saved the manager and arguably the inflicting of one of the worst embarrassments in our long and inglorious football history.
- Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
- English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them.
- Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades.
- The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride.
- It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche.
- There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December.
- But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure.
Synonyms
shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, unheroic, undignified, wretched, shabby
1. 1.1 Not famous or renowned.
  Example sentencesExamples
  His women reflect ‘silences’ that represent ‘mute inglorious beings’ whose waking hours are a struggle for survival.
  In very truth the sole punishment of ill-livers is an inglorious obscurity
  The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin inglorius (from in- (expressing negation) + gloria ‘glory’) + -ous.

单词	inglorious
释义	Definition of inglorious in English: inglorious adjective ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsɪnˈɡlɔriəs 1(of an action or situation) causing shame or a loss of honour. an inglorious episode in British imperial history Example sentencesExamples Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades. Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past. Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances. It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche. For the Broncos, it was an inglorious end to a disappointing season. There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December. Rather than casting their community as blameless victims in every conflict, traveller leaders might win greater public sympathy by being more upfront about the complex and often inglorious realities of traveller life. The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride. But there is a chance that he may still have useful information, and that when the adrenalin wears off after an inglorious period in jail he could divulge it; he certainly won't if he is dead. I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism. Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility. English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them. If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history. ‘Threw it away years ago,’ Bond shrugs, an inglorious admission he mutters into a year's growth of beard. During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe. Yet alongside these inglorious examples, America also has a tradition of waging war for honorable reasons that it could offer to the world as legitimate grounds for making war. It was two of our southern neighbours, with only the most tangential connections to this country, who saved the manager and arguably the inflicting of one of the worst embarrassments in our long and inglorious football history. I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme. Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee. But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure. Synonyms shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, unheroic, undignified, wretched, shabby scandalous, shocking 2Not famous or renowned. inglorious though the peasants may have been, this is not synonymous with mute Example sentencesExamples In very truth the sole punishment of ill-livers is an inglorious obscurity The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. His women reflect ‘silences’ that represent ‘mute inglorious beings’ whose waking hours are a struggle for survival. Derivatives ingloriously adverb ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsliɪnˈɡlɔriəsli Anyway, what began historically on 25 December 800, when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor, ended ingloriously on 6 August 1806. Example sentencesExamples Eventually we were released, crawling ingloriously to freedom through a dumb waiter. The British Empire in India ended ingloriously in 1948. As soon as he could, Delacroix painted the unspeakable: a soldier stretched out ingloriously between two dead horses on a battlefield abandoned by Marshal Marmont. Keeling over, he toppled ingloriously at her feet. ingloriousness noun ɪnˈɡlɔːrɪəsnəsɪnˈɡlɔriəsnəs Some critics felt that Starling had over-reached himself in trying to portray a society on the edge of anarchy in all its ingloriousness. Example sentencesExamples Is the glory of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs a foil of depression and ingloriousness in this world, to set it off? Ultimately, touchingly, Adams delineates the ingloriousness that lay in the shadows of Wilbur and Orville's ingeniousness and vision. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin inglorius (from in- (expressing negation) + gloria 'glory') + -ous. Definition of inglorious in US English: inglorious adjectiveɪnˈɡlɔriəsinˈɡlôrēəs 1(of an action or situation) causing shame or a loss of honor. the events are inglorious and culminate in a vicious gang crime Example sentencesExamples For the Broncos, it was an inglorious end to a disappointing season. If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history. I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism. Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances. Yet alongside these inglorious examples, America also has a tradition of waging war for honorable reasons that it could offer to the world as legitimate grounds for making war. But there is a chance that he may still have useful information, and that when the adrenalin wears off after an inglorious period in jail he could divulge it; he certainly won't if he is dead. Rather than casting their community as blameless victims in every conflict, traveller leaders might win greater public sympathy by being more upfront about the complex and often inglorious realities of traveller life. Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee. Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past. ‘Threw it away years ago,’ Bond shrugs, an inglorious admission he mutters into a year's growth of beard. During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe. I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme. It was two of our southern neighbours, with only the most tangential connections to this country, who saved the manager and arguably the inflicting of one of the worst embarrassments in our long and inglorious football history. Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility. English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them. Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades. The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride. It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche. There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December. But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure. Synonyms shameful, dishonourable, ignominious, discreditable, disgraceful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, shaming, ignoble, abject, unheroic, undignified, wretched, shabby 1.1 Not famous or renowned. Example sentencesExamples His women reflect ‘silences’ that represent ‘mute inglorious beings’ whose waking hours are a struggle for survival. In very truth the sole punishment of ill-livers is an inglorious obscurity The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin inglorius (from in- (expressing negation) + gloria ‘glory’) + -ous.
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