What's the difference between infamous and inglorious?

Infamous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
  • (a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
  • (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
  • (a.) Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
  • (2) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
  • (3) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
  • (4) The 26-year-old – currently serving a domestic 10-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season – could yet force the situation by handing in a formal transfer request , or even asking the Premier League to intervene over the interpretation of the now infamous get-out clause.
  • (5) The most infamous case of those whose bodies were recovered was that of Jean McConville.
  • (6) Now then, in his infamous rant at the press, Joe Kinnear told hacks to ask people like you what they thought of him.
  • (7) I had imagined that this would be an interesting journey, if not spectacularly scenic, since this landscape is infamously flat.
  • (8) Late-night on Philando Castile's death: 'When I watched the video, it broke me' Read more The host proceeded to discuss Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally in Iowa on Wednesday night, where “he was about to repeat his infamous claim that he’s done more in office than any president in history, although this time he caught himself, sort of”.
  • (9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
  • (10) Yet Ferguson ignored him and the dispute over stud fees for Rock Of Gibraltar, the retired racehorse, started to have damaging ramifications at Old Trafford, with Magnier and McManus using their position as major shareholders to submit their infamous 99 Questions document, predominantly looking at 13 transfers from the Ferguson era.
  • (11) Mr Sharon is internationally infamous for being judged partly responsible for allowing the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Falangists at refugee camps in Beirut in 1982.
  • (12) Some of the Shia militias taking part in the campaign have also said they want to avenge the infamous Camp Speicher massacre, one of the largest incidents of mass execution by Isis, when up to 1,700 Iraqi Shia army cadets were massacred last year.
  • (13) It needs to be said that this is not about Imelda Marcos and her infamous collection of shoes , although her shopping habit is real.
  • (14) In the early noughties, over a period of four years and three big books, Niall Ferguson developed an argument for which he would become famous - or infamous, depending on your view.
  • (15) Gotti Jr's sister, Victoria Gotti, has been the star of the TV series Growing Up Gotti, which endeavoured to show the trials and tribulations of life bearing the infamous Gotti name.
  • (16) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (17) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
  • (18) Iranian citizens were included in the US president’s infamous travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.
  • (19) He said the presenter's infamous 6Music interview with Ray Davies, which the Kinks singer cut short after a series of increasingly obscure questions, was the "worst interview in the history of broadcasting".
  • (20) This performance was arguably more troubling than the infamous late capitulation in May.

Inglorious


Definition:

  • (a.) Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.
  • (a.) Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But coming, as they do, from someone who had such an inglorious start to his academic career, they represent an extraordinary change in circumstances.
  • (2) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
  • (3) When the Dutchman arrived he may have instigated a glorious revolution in government, but he created an inglorious revolution in drinking.
  • (4) But yesterday, more than a year after Tillman's death, it emerged that the US military hid the inglorious truth that he was killed by friendly fire in order not to detract from an image-burnishing nationally televised memorial service.
  • (5) Its reward for exposing the detail of this inglorious episode in its history, which included raising £3m from hard-pressed local councils, is to be held up for criticism for inappropriate spending.
  • (6) The pensions industry has a long and inglorious record here, reaching back to the great mis-selling scandals of a generation ago.
  • (7) Banking customers and the staff of Northern Rock can only hope that Mr Branson's latest venture does not go down the same inglorious route as Virgin Cola, Virgin Cars and Virgin Brides .
  • (8) QT : I actually think the best scenes I ever wrote are the Hans Landa and the French farmer scene in Inglorious Basterds, and in the first script I ever wrote, True Romance, the whole "Sicilian" scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken.
  • (9) • Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor is published by Hurst & Company at £20.
  • (10) Australia has an inglorious history of turning a blind eye to profitable bad behaviour.
  • (11) When I wrote the scene in Inglorious Basterds, I thought "I finally matched it".
  • (12) 1.16pm BST Violence on the pitch Leaving aside the fact that a spiteful match can be entertaining in an inglorious, primitive way, it is interesting to look at why some teams or players seem more inclined to kick off.
  • (13) But he made clear that this year's withdrawal from Afghanistan – like the inglorious exit from Iraq, now rapidly regressing into virtual civil war – will go ahead whatever predictably bloody chaos awaits the Afghan people.
  • (14) The place in the history of empire of these recent interventions may as yet be debatable, even as the inglorious age of “liberal hegemony” draws to a close.
  • (15) In one of its most inglorious moments the department published the names of almost 10,000 asylum seekers on its public website, in a file that was downloaded in Russia, China and Malaysia.
  • (16) Alonso had a suspected electrical problem on the first lap of the second session and stuttered to an inglorious halt.
  • (17) Some might say the senate that sits in Rome today suffers by comparison with its ancient equivalent: Italy's contemporary political debate is often drowned in invective and inglorious spats, a fact Piano experienced firsthand when he arrived to vote for the first time – on the day of Silvio Berlusconi 's dramatic expulsion from the senate in November.
  • (18) Even when judged against the inglorious and grubby scandals of the past 25 years this will go down as a dark day for athletics.
  • (19) The venue, a prefab, was certainly inglorious and the audience was very small: it seemed Bishop's gamble was not paying off.
  • (20) The toxic oil syndrome represents the most inglorious example of the recent time.