what does inglorious mean?
INGLORIOUS as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- not bringing honor and glory
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- some mute inglorious Milton here may rest
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- Meaning
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
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- Man…has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands- Rachel Carson
- an ignominious retreat
- inglorious defeat
- an opprobrious monument to human
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