inglorious
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Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Allan Ramsay and others caught Britain’s biggest losers in oils, allowing us to put rubicund faces to inglorious reputations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
A proud Bruin having met an inglorious ending, those fixes will now be in the hands of someone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2025
It is not Smith’s fault that his investigation has reached such a premature and inglorious end.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2024
A naughty cat is carried off by its mistress in an inglorious neck-and-bottom hold.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Two months later, it met an inglorious end when, during the Battle of Fort Lee, the American ship that was transporting it was sunk by the British.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing inglorious
Unit 1: Telling Details
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"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 1
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