inglorious

Speech parts

1. inglorious - Adjective

2. inglorious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.

Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc.

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Examples

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. Napoleon Bonaparte

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton. H. L. Mencken

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Thomas Gray

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. Ambrose Bierce

My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life: A country cottage near a crystal flood, A winding valley, and a lofty wood. John Dryden

We shall never know of the numbers of "mute and inglorious Miltons" who failed because the place and time were not ready for them...Was not Sullivan a jewel in the wrong setting? Arthur Sullivan

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