The use of organisms in warfare has a long, if inglorious, history. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : inglorious retreat. From Dictionary.com.
Michael Jordan's glorious NBA career is ending in inglorious fashion. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Jordan can't spread magic to other Wizards] Reference
Two years more glided away in inglorious inaction; he then made some ineffective warlike expeditions. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
O'Rourke, who will -- in all likelihood -- survive his "inglorious" cancer. From Wordnik.com. ["But God, Sir, in Your manner of teaching us about life's consequential nature, isn't death a bit ... um ... extreme, pedagogically speaking?"] Reference
Therefore it seems that He was "inglorious," by enduring every human suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
Fade in inglorious dreams of doubtful fame. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson] Reference
The only thing that annoys me about it is how Tarantino chose to spell 'inglorious' and 'bastards.'. From Wordnik.com. ["Inglourious Basterds"] Reference
Wilf works with rocks in both his tidy fifth-floor microscope lab and in his "inglorious" and dingy basement lab in Deike Building. From Wordnik.com. [Centredaily.com: Local] Reference
Taratino and Yokel Ohno both missspell "inglorious" the same way.). From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Desperate Houseguests] Reference
Barack Obama is falling into this inglorious tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Levine: Barack Obama: Neocon Despite Himself] Reference
All that dying young was indisputably sad and inglorious. From Wordnik.com. [To an Athlete Dying Young] Reference
So far as France was concerned, it was an inglorious close. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
They are weary of their monotonous, inactive, inglorious life. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
South Carolina fell to pieces, after a brief and inglorious existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
To this inglorious position was his fame as a charioteer reduced, when. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
Many of our officers are mortally mortified at our late inglorious retreat. From Wordnik.com. [A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851] Reference
The contrast with Baroness Thatcher's inglorious record in education is marked. From Wordnik.com. [Cameron's First 100 Days] Reference
The difference in result is often decisive victory instead of inglorious defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Aging science has "a long, inglorious history of quacks and charlatans," he laughs. From Wordnik.com. [Gerit Quealy: Aging is Old Hat] Reference
The fame of this inglorious triumph has, however, been divided between Lovat and Hugh. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Cythera, and my house of Idalia; here, far from arms, let him spend an inglorious life. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The rest of his inglorious reign was spent by Baldwin in mendicant tours in western Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Rest a moment on the threshold of this infinite world of inglorious good, of quiet activities. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
And after the inglorious exit from Vietnam, we took that unhappy engagement as our next lesson. From Wordnik.com. [Reinventing The World] Reference
As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, it appears to be an inglorious end to a trailblazing career. From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire, Journalist Helen Thomas Quits] Reference
"Your sentiments do you honour: retirement from business is pleasant, but inglorious and mean.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Constantinople was taken by Mahomet II in 1453, and the Greek Empire came to an inglorious end. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
I braced myself, seeing visions ahead of a broken neck and a sudden inglorious end to my campaigning. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
This inglorious maneuver was improved by Sir John Mennes, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, and the author of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Obama would occupy his "inglorious position" for only eight years, he wrote, while Cuba would never surrender. From Wordnik.com. [How Fidel Snookered Everyone] Reference
"Woodstock Races," and never tired of poking fun at General Rosser about his precipitate and inglorious flight. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
And the words sounded like an epitaph, a not inglorious one, although the hand that gripped the lance had failed. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But with the persons here contemplated, the impunity they expect is the very incitement to their inglorious warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
It was, at all events, even if we measure the standard of honour by the degree of military success, an inglorious victory. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Thus ended a peaceable but inglorious, a plentiful but luxurious reign, to make room for another more turbulent and tragical. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
If the British should see the colonists weak and unprepared, they would either conquer them or offer them an inglorious peace. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington] Reference
A dull anger took possession of us at the thought of so inglorious an end after all that we had suffered to attain our freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
And now let us go back to Nan and her chums and the poor woman who had brought the bobsled race to such an inglorious termination. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
If he doesn't win come next Tuesday, his short, yet mostly well-received political career will likely come to a somewhat inglorious end. From Wordnik.com. [No regrets for Vince Gray] Reference
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