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adjective

Inglorious adj.

Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. "My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life." "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest."

Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc. "Inglorious shelter in an alien land."

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Etymology of 'Inglorious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inglorious" Quotes from Famous Books

... with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of ...

— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various

... which not all the crimes and follies of the two Ferdinands and the first Francis had succeeded in evoking. How many bright lives, full of promise, were lost in that warfare which even the sacred name of duty could not save from being ungrateful and inglorious! Italians who have lost their children in their country's battles have never been heard to complain; nowhere was the seemliness of death for native land better understood than it has been in the Italy of this century, but to lose son or brother in a brigand ...

— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... go then," compromised Carol, and she and Miss Landbury, hand in hand, marched like Trojans to the switch in the other room, Carol clicked the button, and then came a wild and inglorious rush back to the mattress on ...

— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... of Turgot exactly bridge the interval between the ministry of the infamous Dubois and the ministry of the inglorious Calonne; between the despair and confusion of the close of the regency, and the despair and confusion of the last ten years of the monarchy. In 1727 we stand on the threshold of that far-resounding ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Turgot • John Morley

... of discontent is a stranger; the idea puzzles her; her life has always been thus; she did not expect anything otherwise. It is a genuine forest-nature, mute yet never inglorious, reciting uncomplainingly its lesson of ...

— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix

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