(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"
If you describe something as inglorious, you mean that it is something to be ashamed of. He wouldn't have accepted such an inglorious outcome. + ingloriously in·glo·ri·ous·ly If fighting worsens, the troops might be reinforced, or ingloriously withdrawn. causing shame and dishonour