(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.
Notoriously
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Example Sentences:
(1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(2) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(3) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(4) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(5) Even as the Obama administration moves to deal with some of Guantánamo's most notorious captives, it faces tough challenges to closing the facility.
(6) The council offered him a tea urn | Frances Ryan Read more Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious “fit-for-work” tests were riven with flaws.
(7) The Colorado-based tycoon is notoriously secretive and at one point looked as if he was going to mount a rival bid for the US satellite TV company.
(8) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(9) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(10) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(11) Many of the issues that arise in the Oxfordshire case also arose in some form in the other notorious child abuse cases of the modern era.
(12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(13) But defenders of Ihat recall the notorious case of Baha Mousa , an Iraqi who died in British detention, and note that the MoD has paid out £22m in compensation to victims of alleged abuse in Iraq.
(14) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(15) ‘You help us and we’ll take care of you’: a windfall of abuse hits minorities in the Windy City – and Lee Harris Facebook Twitter Pinterest The notoriously abusive Chicago police officer Jon Burge (top) was released on Friday.
(16) Her most notorious performance came during the Falklands war of 1982 when she made little or no effort to disguise her distaste for American diplomatic support of Britain.
(17) In a 59-page report published on Friday, the force revealed that eight of its officers attended Savile's notorious "Friday Morning Club" to socialise with the former DJ at his home in Leeds, including four who attended regularly over a number of years.
(18) The epidemiological approach to occupational accidents and diseases adopted in Brazil is inadequate for many reasons, among them being: 1) the fact that only employers may notify work accidents, thus permitting notorious undernotification of these occupational hazards; 2) the available information does not permit a better understanding of the causal relationship between work accidents and diseases; 3) the official policy exists only for purposes of insurance compensation.
(19) It was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history.
(20) Estimates of panda numbers in the wild vary enormously due to the difficulty of collecting data about the notoriously shy animal, which lives in dense, high-altitude vegetation: the last survey required more than 35,000 volunteers.