ingloriously

How To Use ingloriously In A Sentence

• There are always men like him, eager vaingloriously to display their would-be-insuperable power.
• Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire.
• 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.
• `It's the milk of human kindness,' he explained, a trifle vaingloriously. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
• So, the herald was a decided failure, and the crowd hooted with great energy, as he pranced ingloriously away. Sketches by Boz
• If the city only thinks of its own image, it is actually behaving vaingloriously.
• 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
• If fighting worsens, the troops might be reinforced, or ingloriously withdrawn.
• 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?
• 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