inglorious

  • (s) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    • "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson
    • an ignominious retreat
    • inglorious defeat
    • an opprobrious monument to human greed
    • a shameful display of cowardice
    ignominious, shameful, disgraceful, opprobrious, black,
  • (a) not bringing honor and glory
    • some mute inglorious Milton here may rest

Synonyms

ignominious shameful disgraceful opprobrious black

Antonyms

glorious

See also

dishonorable dishonourable unknown

Words of close approximity

ingloriously