How To Use Inglorious In A Sentence
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Last week, exultant rebels in Tripoli clambered on Gaddafi's vainglorious statue of an American warplane in the grip of a mighty Libyan fist.
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Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
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Modern improvements in the means for the diffusion of knowledge have not brought about the millennium, but they have reduced the old statecraft to a condition of inglorious futility.
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I've written before of an earlier generation of MPs who were unabashed propagandists for Stalin, and there is an inglorious tradition of Labour MPs who serve the propaganda interests of despotism.
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These aircraft were converted to target drones with the designation of F4B - 4A and most met an inglorious end while being fired at by Navy gunners.
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Although Johnston depicts Cook as a cautious and dignified man compared to his vainglorious counterpart, both men risked their reputations in their mutual quest.
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Rome was still the lawful mistress of the world: the pope and the emperor, the bishop and general, had abdicated their station by an inglorious retreat to the Rhone and the Danube; but if she could resume her virtue, the republic might again vindicate her liberty and dominion.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure.
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His promise to the commissioner of more to come is not just a journalist's vainglorious bluster.
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Lundberg noted the "slavocracy was not terminated .... for moral reasons; it committed suicide for political and economic reasons, blinded by simple greed and vaingloriousness, and long after slavery was abolished in most places elsewhere.
Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"
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Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee.
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There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
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But then compare that with really any of the long scenes from Inglorious and it's no contest .. hoth base you just contridicted yourself stupid, you said that movies with karate are boring, then you said its fun to watch movies with karate. who the hell says karate anymore?
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Yet four years ago they were accused of being underprepared before an inglorious campaign.
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For long stretches of their inglorious history, they have not had cause to come often.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
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Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past.
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Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.
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His political conclusion repudiates the crude nationalism, a form of anthropomorphism when all is said and done, which projects upon regional botany its vainglorious xenophobia.
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The ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, warns Scrooge of his vainglorious ways.
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Prices plummeted in the A shares market, the institutional investors indeed played an inglorious role.
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Before Jacob went to sea and was miscalled Yawcob by sailormen, he dwelt in dark woods, capered up jungle trees, and swayed vaingloriously from jungle boughs.
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It was an inglorious end to my international career.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December.
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As the political darling of the resurgent military nation, Turenne's tomb tacitly reinstated the ‘vainglorious’ funerary monument and the theme of the dying hero in official funerary designs.
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Make no vainglorious boasts, I beg you.
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Left-wingers, rather than jingoes, should be the ones least willing to forgive "Hanoi Jane"; although her characteristically vainglorious, self-dramatizing decision to publicly oppose the war was the most morally justified one of her life, her judgment of how to put it into practice was disastrous.
Calamity Jane
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`It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
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The vainglorious presence of Marilyn Monroe is placed alongside the subdued countenance of Mother Theresa, Che Guevara glares vehemently in opposition to the pacifistic visage of Mahatma Gandhi.
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But there is a chance that he may still have useful information, and that when the adrenalin wears off after an inglorious period in jail he could divulge it; he certainly won't if he is dead.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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English tourists, outraged by the gloating - despite our inglorious failure to qualify for the tournament ourselves - are threatening to pick up their ball and walk away, taking their cash with them.
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So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away.
Sketches by Boz
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While not asserting that the Galatians are "vainglorious" now, he says they are liable to become so. provoking one another -- an effect of "vaingloriousness" on the stronger: as "envying" is its effect on the weaker.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Ph. D, author, and a man of great note in his own mind, he patricianly attempts to lectures us all about his vainglorious sense of political civility, use of common day technology (e.g.,
GraniteGrok
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some mute inglorious Milton here may rest
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For the Broncos, it was an inglorious end to a disappointing season.
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If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » The War on Terrorism in the Courts:
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he finished an inglorious last
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This liberal muscularity campaign began in earnest when Michael Dukakis cartoonishly donned combat fatigues and a helmet and rode a tanker to inglorious defeat in the 1988 presidential campaign.
Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists?
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We immediately took to the word because "glissade," said with just a hint of indeterminate European accent, sounded more respectable than "sliding on our backsides down the face of a snowy mountainside with our snowshoes splayed out in front of us and our poles dragging ingloriously behind.
NYT > Travel
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His naive, fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
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Some Tory MPs see this inglorious episode as a symptom of government by focus group.
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An inglorious end to a sorry tale.
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If fighting worsens, the troops might be reinforced, or ingloriously withdrawn.
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The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride.
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the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
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In very truth the sole punishment of ill-livers is an inglorious obscurity
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He wouldn't have accepted such an inglorious outcome.
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Like many vainglorious self-publicists, he probably thought he could charm the acid interviewer.
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Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances.
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inglorious defeat
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He was a lying, deceitful, disingenuous, hopeless, untalented, flatulent, vainglorious, double-dealing, warmongering, blow-hard ...
The Sun
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But are they really any more vaingloriously ambitious than those constructed by the landed aristocracy of the 18th century, Victorian mill-owners, or Citizen Kane himself?
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » The War on Terrorism in the Courts:
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Johnson will go down in history as the man who filled the ridiculous and inglorious role of having tried to issue the declaration of Latin American nonindependence.
4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY
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He wouldn't have accepted such an inglorious outcome.
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In other words, he comes across as a vainglorious know-it-all, absolutely convinced that he's right about everything.
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Smith possessed a vainglorious streak to his character, but also showed great valour and judgement.
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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It is another inglorious episode, but the move was so ill-judged that it feels like abandoning it is an exercise in damage limitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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You shall find that of Aristotle true, nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae, they have a worm as well as others; you shall find a fantastical strain, a fustian, a bombast, a vainglorious humour, an affected style, &c., like a prominent thread in an uneven woven cloth, run parallel throughout their works.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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His fatuous smile alone would have aroused their ire before he opened his vainglorious mouth.
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Throughout his memoirs, he revels in reflected glory, the more so when it is ingloriously undeserved, and when it comes to "dining out", Harper's Ferry plainly ranks with Balaclava and Little Big Horn and Cawnpore.
THE NUMBERS
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If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history.
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His vainglorious speech at the Oscar ceremony claimed a new dawn for British cinema.
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He vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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Aircraft leasing has a long and inglorious past.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aside from their palpable defensive frailties there was a lamentable lack of inspiration in midfield, whilst upfront John Sutton and Lovell mostly toiled in inglorious isolation.
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(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech.
Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731
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The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity.
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His women reflect ‘silences’ that represent ‘mute inglorious beings’ whose waking hours are a struggle for survival.
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You will be amused to hear that although, or perhaps because, I had evolved out of myself 'Mr. Quirke' as a conscious philanthropist, an old man from the workhouse told me two days ago that he had been a butcher of Quirke's sort and was quite vainglorious about it, telling me how many staggery sheep and the like he had killed, that would, if left to die, have been useless or harmful.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche.
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The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
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For years they have provided a power base for him - realising he still clings to the vainglorious Brussels dream, while the Chancellor thwarts his ambition.
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In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously.
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What I love most about Inglorious Basterds is its utter indescribability.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Yet alongside these inglorious examples, America also has a tradition of waging war for honorable reasons that it could offer to the world as legitimate grounds for making war.
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She always has that vaingloriously blasé look on her face.
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Mr. Jeal is similarly generous to the demons that drove Henry Morton Stanley and puts his search for, and hero-worship of, Livingstone in context, making his famous staged meeting, "resplendent in pith helmet and white flannels," mounted on a stallion, with the Stars and Stripes flying, touching and admirable rather than vainglorious.
To the Source
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I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme.
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He dishes out obloquy to former tutors and students and treats the reader to vainglorious self-congratulation.
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Blind faith in an over-subscribed, vainglorious myth will only hinder you.
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It is another inglorious episode, but the move was so ill-judged that it feels like abandoning it is an exercise in damage limitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Threw it away years ago,’ Bond shrugs, an inglorious admission he mutters into a year's growth of beard.
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Regarding Oscar potential, the nominees include two favorites in Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and James Cameron (Avatar), two likely contenders in Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) and Quentin Tarantino (Inglorious Basterds), and possible longshot Lee Daniels (Precious).
The Directors Guild of America Suggests Bigelow, Cameron, Reitman, Tarantino, and Daniels Were the Best Directors of 2009 – Collider.com
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A small bird trills its song, vaingloriously trying to compete with the thundering waters below.
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During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
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As vainglorious was Richard Westmacott's retreat from the field of unstricken battle as his advance upon it had been inglorious.
Mistress Wilding
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At the suggestion of my friend, the Rev.Mr. Hunt, I have restored the original readings, as in truer consonancy with the vainglorious, insolent, and swaggering ballad spirit.
Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
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Both of them knew that Beynor of Moss was a vainglorious young blowhard, treacherous as a weasel and even more wily.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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What they cannot say is that their jobs mostly consist of inglorious compromise.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a moment he has thirsted for, really, since the plane ride home after last season, which ended ingloriously at the hands of the Texas Rangers with Mr. Burnett bounced from the playoff rotation.
Burnett's Tuning Out the Noise
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The photographer has noticed an amusing discrepancy between his glorious appearance and its inglorious origins.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is given the part of Pyramus, though he vaingloriously longs to play all the parts.
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That country has a long, inglorious record of dealing harshly with political prisoners.
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Today, they would have aired the vainglorious fiasco uncensored.
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The clashing of music and visual senses in Inglorious Basterd bugged the hell out of me. dinomania
Tarantino Will Make Another Film Before Kill Bill 3; Perhaps a Western or Gangster Picture | /Film
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Anglo-French military co-operation has an inglorious postwar history.
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Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades.
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These methods of borrowing may be new, but they fit into a long, inglorious history.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was two of our southern neighbours, with only the most tangential connections to this country, who saved the manager and arguably the inflicting of one of the worst embarrassments in our long and inglorious football history.
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At dawn we convene, an adiaphorous wind caresses us with listless fingers, vainglorious and animal.
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