inglorious

adj

1. Ignominious; disgraceful.

   “Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue?”

   “Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.”

   “[H]e cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.”

   “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. (archaic)Not famous; obscure.

   “Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.”