Pronunciations (3)
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/ɪnˈɡlɔɹi.əs/
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/ɪnˈɡloʊɹi.əs/
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ɪnˈɡlɔɹi.əs
Adjective
Ignominious; disgraceful.
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Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue?
Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
[H]e cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.
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The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
Not famous; obscure.
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Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.
Adjective
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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an ignominious retreat
inglorious defeat
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an opprobrious monument to human greed
a shameful display of cowardice
not bringing honor and glory
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some mute inglorious Milton here may rest