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Meanings of inglorious in английском

(Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.

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Not bringing honor and glory.

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Usage of inglorious in английском
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The list is long and inglorious, and getting longer by the day.
The Irish Times
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Then came inglorious rule over a country that descended into civil war.
The Guardian
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My previous experience of such work had been both brief and inglorious.
The Irish Times
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For long minutes as it seemed to Graham that inglorious struggle continued.
The sleeper awakes
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Its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, had cast a long, inglorious shadow.
The Irish Times
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The difference in result is often decisive victory instead of inglorious defeat.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
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While the system is in operation you will be free but inglorious.
Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
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But that hasn't prevented a long and inglorious catalogue of eye-popping attempts.
The Irish Times
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But now the spirits of the storm have swept him away inglorious.
The Odyssey of Homer
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Yet the career of the Achaian League was not an inglorious one.
American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal...
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Equally harmless and inglorious was the catastrophe of Susy and her friend.
Susy, a Story of the Plains
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It was an inglorious end to one of Ireland's stellar business careers.
The Irish Times
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We drop through a Time-hole, and find ourselves in an inglorious anachronism.
Humanly Speaking
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Napoleon bewails the inglorious fate for which he seems to be reserved.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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His slaves by no means led lives of luxury and inglorious ease.
George Washington: Farmer / Being an Account of His Home Life an...
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There was a Thoreau-therestill is-inevery New England village, usually inglorious.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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