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adjective

Inglorious adj.

Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease. "My next desire is, void of care and strife, To lead a soft, secure, inglorious life." "Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest."

Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc. "Inglorious shelter in an alien land."

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Etymology of 'Inglorious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inglorious" Quotes from Famous Books

... truths, and patient observation of the characters of men, and the wisdom that comes from sorrow and passion, and a sage's experience of things actual, embracing the dark secrets of human infirmity and crime. But despite all that has been said in disparagement or disbelief of "mute, inglorious Miltons," we maintain that there are natures in which the divinest element of poetry exists, the purer and more delicate for escaping from bodily form and evaporating from the coarser vessels into which the poet, so called, must ...

— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... 2 per cent. of them died drunkards, yet 98 per cent. of them drank liquor. If the Prohibs have ever produced an intellect of the first class they must have hidden it under a bushel. Its possessor is probably one of those village Hampdens or mute inglorious Miltons of whom the poet sings. The Prohibs don't run to great ...

— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... dastard fears abash, He was born to be a slave— Let him feel the despot's lash, And sink inglorious to the grave. ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... "Wait a bit, Denny. I'm down over this infernal cow!" It was an inglorious ending to the ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... participation in the pitiable scenes enacted along the shores of Minas and Chignecto Bays. The Massachusetts Archives contain no pay-rolls of this expedition, and no papers of Captain Abijah Willard are known to exist throwing any light upon its history. That the service was not only inglorious in part, and ungrateful to the truly brave, but attended with much hardship, is attested by the following documents copied from Massachusetts Archives, lv, 62 and 63. They are there in the handwriting of ...

— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various

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