inglorious

• “Michael Jordan's glorious NBA career is ending in inglorious fashion.”

  USATODAY.com - Jordan can't spread magic to other Wizards

• “Two years more glided away in inglorious inaction; he then made some ineffective warlike expeditions.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “But Mrs. Kane was not slow to read the expression of Hetty's large dark-fringed eyes, which, with all the frankness of childhood, betrayed their owner's thoughts; and she knew that Hetty would find no pleasure in learning to recall the inglorious circumstances of her infancy.”

  Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn

• “O'Rourke, who will -- in all likelihood -- survive his "inglorious" cancer.”

  "But God, Sir, in Your manner of teaching us about life's consequential nature, isn't death a bit ... um ... extreme, pedagogically speaking?"

• “Therefore it seems that He was "inglorious," by enduring every human suffering.”

  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition

• “Wilf works with rocks in both his tidy fifth-floor microscope lab and in his "inglorious" and dingy basement lab in Deike Building.”

  Centredaily.com: Local

• “The only thing that annoys me about it is how Tarantino chose to spell 'inglorious' and 'bastards.”

  "Inglourious Basterds"

• “Taratino and Yokel Ohno both missspell "inglorious" the same way.)”

  Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Desperate Houseguests

• “And Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, while he attended the Continental Congress, If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners, and not sink into inglorious ease . . .”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “Douglas Hurd's most inglorious decision as foreign secretary was to oppose the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia on the grounds that it would create a "level killing field.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable & Quotable

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