What's the difference between inglorious and unglorious?
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.