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adjective

Infamous adj.

Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. "False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn."

Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.

(Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.

Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." "Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds." "The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made."

Synonyms: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious.

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"Infamous" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be proud of her zealous son," and he again shook the hand of his infamous lieutenant. Then with a very low bow Jean left the ...

— Annette, The Metis Spy • Joseph Edmund Collins

... husbands, and dashing against the stones the fruit of the mingled blood of the oppressors and the oppressed. This general massacre of all who spoke the same language, and these heinous acts of cruelty, have caused the Sicilian Vespers to be classed among the most infamous of national crimes. ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various

... court in the land that they have been living in shame all this time, and that their children are not legitimate. Ladies, I call your attention to the fact that many of our own members are thus branded by those judges. It is infamous. It is more than infamous—it is a reason why women should sit ...

— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various

... has hung over you ever since you were born, so that she seemed to stand between you and the very air you breathed." And then you told me about your marriage; how, in order to be free from her, you took the husband, rich and infamous, into whose arms she threw you in your innocence; how, at the end of a few months, you returned home doubly a slave, to be crushed, year in, year out, by love that showed itself almost as hate; bound now in ...

— The Wings of Icarus - Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher • Laurence Alma Tadema

... of the reformers this measure, and of having caused to be presented the first petition to the throne, praying the Prince to assist the people in recovering their right of universal suffrage, in the election of members of the House of Commons. You must all recollect the infamous manner in which I was attacked and assailed by the whole of the daily London Press at that time, with the single exception of the Statesman. However, the reformers of the north, south, east, and west, became instantly alive to the appeal that was made to them in the resolutions passed at Spa ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 1 • Henry Hunt

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