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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡlɔɹi.əs/, /ɪnˈɡloʊɹi.əs/
• ハイフネーション: in‧glo‧ri‧ous

形容詞

inglorious (comparative more inglorious, superlative most inglorious)

1. Ignominious; disgraceful.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:

     O inglorious league! / Shall we, upon the footing of our land, / Send fair-play orders and make compromise, / Insinuation, parley and base truce / To arms invasive?

   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter 6, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:

     Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East.

   • 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter VI, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, OCLC 288492, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild):

     He cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.

   • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:

     The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.

2. Not famous; obscure.

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