inglorious

Michael Jordan's glorious NBA career is ending in inglorious fashion.

USATODAY.com - Jordan can't spread magic to other Wizards 2003

Two years more glided away in inglorious inaction; he then made some ineffective warlike expeditions.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

But Mrs. Kane was not slow to read the expression of Hetty's large dark-fringed eyes, which, with all the frankness of childhood, betrayed their owner's thoughts; and she knew that Hetty would find no pleasure in learning to recall the inglorious circumstances of her infancy.

Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn Rosa Mulholland 1881

O'Rourke, who will -- in all likelihood -- survive his "inglorious" cancer.

"But God, Sir, in Your manner of teaching us about life's consequential nature, isn't death a bit ... um ... extreme, pedagogically speaking?" Ann Althouse 2008

Therefore it seems that He was "inglorious," by enduring every human suffering.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

Wilf works with rocks in both his tidy fifth-floor microscope lab and in his "inglorious" and dingy basement lab in Deike Building.

Centredaily.com: Local 2010

The only thing that annoys me about it is how Tarantino chose to spell 'inglorious' and 'bastards.'

Archive 2009-08-01 Lindsey 2009

The only thing that annoys me about it is how Tarantino chose to spell 'inglorious' and 'bastards.'

"Inglourious Basterds" Lindsey 2009

Taratino and Yokel Ohno both missspell "inglorious" the same way.)

Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Desperate Houseguests 2009

And Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, while he attended the Continental Congress, If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners, and not sink into inglorious ease . . .

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010