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Etymology

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From un- +‎ gloriful.

Adjective

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ungloriful (comparative more ungloriful, superlative most ungloriful)

  1. Not gloriful or glorious; unglorious
    • 1976, Micheal Clodfelter, The Pawns of Dishonor:
      But now, although pride was not a completely empty emotion for me, there was hardly the flood of self-esteem I once would have felt . . . for I had grown, or at least I had learned; I had caught sad glimpses of the ungloriful truth.
    • 2007, W. Schmitz, Planets Against Us- Grues and Kins, page 61:
      We die, oh, we die and enter the ungloriful land where we have no purpose and wander about separated from anything we knew in life," stammered a tearful Bombylious.