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Recent Examples of inglorious
The inglorious history of these speeches reflects the inglorious nature of the office of the Vice-Presidency.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The loss of this course is also a loss to those white students who want to learn the history of America in all its glorious and inglorious moments.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
The encampment was led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group with a long, inglorious history at Vassar, which includes posting a Nazi cartoon on social media and launching BDS campaigns on the eve of significant Jewish holidays.
—Megan Tallmer, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
Their recent reckoning with their own inglorious pasts gives them the unique credibility to warn China not to make the same mistake.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The loss of this course is also a loss to those white students who want to learn the history of America in all its glorious and inglorious moments.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
The encampment was led by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group with a long, inglorious history at Vassar, which includes posting a Nazi cartoon on social media and launching BDS campaigns on the eve of significant Jewish holidays.
—Megan Tallmer, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
Their recent reckoning with their own inglorious pasts gives them the unique credibility to warn China not to make the same mistake.
—Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inglorious
Adjective
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Musk delivered an unmistakable, and reprehensible, fascist salute.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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But if there has been any harm caused to Oscar Jenkins, that is absolutely reprehensible.—
Eric Cheung,
CNN,
15 Jan. 2025
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That morning, on the day of his exam, looking up at the stone façades, Gabriel suddenly realized that this was a place that existed not despite but because of the iniquitous history exhibited here.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
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Palestinian leaders rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for its iniquitous terms, but then accepted partition on significantly less advantageous terms in 1988.—
Hussein Agha,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2021
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Adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story of the same name, The Monkey traces the tragic history of twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn who, as children, discover a nefarious drumming toy monkey amid the junk their father left behind.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
7 Feb. 2025
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Brian plays the other three for nefarious ends that are not immediately revealed.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
2 Feb. 2025
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The dominant Christian theology of the Middle Ages held that wealth was inherently sinful in a world where most people toiled in terrible poverty.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The concept of sinful sexuality and the lack of education around it is a clever mechanism to disconnect individuals from their inner source of power.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
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But Miss Manners acknowledges that there is also the less blameworthy impulse to offer comfort — not just sympathy — when there is no real comfort to be offered.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
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But even more blameworthy has been the president’s assault on U.S. institutions, which began long before the novel coronavirus appeared and will be felt long after it is gone.—
Daron Acemoglu,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Mar. 2020
Adjective
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After all, how many evil corporations have started because a guy got embarrassed about his wiener in the woods?—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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Other groups saw them as fires generated by evil sky spirits.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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On the small screen, the actor was one half of a buddy cop duo in Battle Creek (2015) before taking on a villainous role in the Stephen King adaptation 11.22.63 (2016) and a heroic one in Netflix’s superhero series Jupiter's Legacy (2021).—
Danny Horn,
EW.com,
2 Feb. 2025
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Hoult made his way back into the picture as the villainous Lex Luthor, and Portuguese model Sara Sampaio has been cast as his assistant Eve Teschmacher.—
Zoe Guy,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Spears writes of these unrighteous men matter-of-factly, avoiding the ad hominem attack, except for an occasional delicious arrow, including a recollection of the eternally white Timberlake meeting one of his rap heroes.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2023
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He’s gone through buzzard-hot streaks and some slumps, at times taking wholly unrighteous shots, and none of that matters to the shooting guard.—
Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
23 Apr. 2021
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“Inglorious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inglorious. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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