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infamous

When someone is infamous, he/she has a bad reputation, of bad report; being vile; detestable; widely known for something bad. He was an infamous traitor. He was an infamous perjurer. When someone is infamous, he/she causes infamy and is disgraceful. This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.

infamous

(= notorious) known widely and usually unfavorably a notorious gangster the tenderloin district was notorious for vice the infamous Benedict Arnold

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Sharks are infamous for their blood thirsty natures.
While in jail, Tom befriended John, an infamous car thief.
The infamous female burglar was never caught.

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To leave him would be infamous and base.
The famous and the infamous.
On this momentous, infamous Sunday the FBI sprang into action just as swiftly and effectively as the rest of the nation 's armed forces.
Your cousin Don Ramon and I saw Captain Blood at Cartagena. wearing the same blue and silver uniform. which he has made infamous throughout the Caribbean.
You wouldn't be able to kill that infamous villain of Luigi Bellomo,..
There was the famous, or infamous, cruise with Billy Norton.
Those infamous stranglers.
Infamous!
The infamous Spider's Web Forest.
I think it's absolutely infamous.
I feel I have already suffered enough from my infamous ancestor. and so.
The infamous prodigal son.
One of the inquisition's most infamous, degrading.
Those infamous anonymous letters had turned his mind!
Say, Flamberger. Do you remember the infamous parade in the last show?
That infamous Vickers woman.
HELLO PARIS, INFAMOUS AND WONDERFUL CITY!
Kill the infamous child who claims to be the rightful King! And destroy forever this traitorous fiend who calls himself The Black Fox!
And I say again, Sire, never, Sire, never was there such infamous treason.
I think it's infamous.
Absolutely infamous.
That is infamous!
I would like to deny the allegations made by an infamous journalist who's spreading false rumours.
The infamous old enemies of the crime fighter.
Have you never been told that it's just as cowardly and infamous as killing an old man or a child?
It is because your lie is so great, so infamous.. That decent human beings cannot believe it to be a lie.
There is infamous trickery behind this.
Let's make a promise, in this memorable moment that we'll stand together until victory and that we'll fight to the death in order to bring down and destroy the infamous Concini.
You infamous creature!
It's a scandal. I would like to deny the allegations made by an infamous journalist who's spreading false rumours.
Only a few explorers and missionaries.. the ivory hunters and the infamous slave raiders.. risked their lives on its blood-soaked trails.
The infamous Mrs. Koller'.
Infamous, Francis was kept away from the agapes.
Who gave you such infamous bravery?
One might ask: Where was Alessandro Marchi on that infamous Friday?
But it is infamous!

News and current affairs

Roberto Calderoli, a prominent official in Lega Nord, the third-largest government party, provoked riots in Libya by wearing a t-shirt printed with the infamous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
The Middle East retains the infamous distinction of being the only region in the world to have used such weapons since the end of World War II.
President Ronald Reagan's deregulation of the Savings and Loan Associations led to an infamous wave of bank failures that cost American taxpayers several hundred billion dollars and contributed to the economic recession of 1991.
The military recently blocked a government move to place Pakistan's infamous intelligence service, the ISI, under the control of the interior minister rather than the prime minister.
But the historic five-day trial dispelled any notion that Bo would go quietly to his cell in Beijing's infamous Qincheng Prison, where China's fallen top leaders are incarcerated.
Chinese garment factories have repeatedly experienced disasters on a par with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City a century ago, which killed 146 workers, all young women.
As a result of the slave-labor brick plants, as well as reports of an eight-year-old child worker being buried alive and migrant workers killed, Hongdong's name has become infamous.
With policy interest rates near zero, the argument goes, central banks are more or less helpless to escape the deflationary vortex, and economies become stuck in the infamous liquidity trap.
Think of Zinedine Zidane's infamous head butt in the 2006 football World Cup.
He recently signed a lavish infrastructure bill that included, among other payoffs to political supporters, an infamous bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
Close to 38 million people died of starvation and overwork during the infamous Great Leap Forward (1958-61) to catch up with the West. Mao's reaction?
Will he tolerate and endorse his prime minister's personal aversions, or is he willing to put an end to the infamous spectacle of a judicial process that has been manipulated and abused from beginning to end?
Observers even compared it to the infamous failed London Economic Summit of 1933, which was a way of saying that the world had not learned the lessons of the Great Depression.
Even in the area of trade policy, despite fears of protectionism, the outcome was not bad by the standards of past recessions, let alone compared to America's infamous Smoot-Hawley tariffs, enacted in 1930.
It would have the same purpose as that infamous wall that once divided Berlin, and the wall that Israel is building to cut itself off from the Palestinian territories: to isolate people.
Of course, crossing the Green Line that separates the Greek and Turkish parts of the city is nothing like crossing Berlin's infamous Checkpoint Charlie.
Afghanistan has an infamous record on both grounds: it has reverted to conflict, and it is not being weaned off its high aid-dependence.
Hong Kong's leaders to do not want to end up on that infamous list.
One only has to recall the vitriol visited upon Rev. Jeremiah Wright during the last presidential campaign for his now infamous sermon in which he said that, with the attacks, the chickens of US foreign policy had come home to roost.
But if you say that you favor protection from imports, you are painted into a corner with Reed Smoot and Willis C. Hawley, authors of the infamous 1930 US tariff bill.

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