About The Word Infamous
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Infamous
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What's The Definition Of Infamous?
[adj] having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Infamous: disreputable | ill-famed | notorious Related Terms | Find terms related to Infamous: aberrant | abhorrent | abnormal | abominable | arrant | atrocious | awful | bad | base | beastly | beneath contempt | black | blackguardly | blamable | blameworthy | brutal | contemptible | corrupt | criminal | damnable | dark | degenerate | degraded | delinquent | deplorable | derogatory | despicable | detestable | deviant | dire | discreditable | disgraceful | disgusting | dishonorable | disreputable | dreadful | egregious | enormous | evil | execrable | fetid | filthy | flagitious | flagrant | foul | fulsome | grievous | gross | hardly the thing | hateful | heinous | horrible | horrid | ignoble | ignominious | illegal | improper | inappropriate | incorrect | indecorous | inglorious | iniquitous | knavish | lamentable | loathsome | lousy | low | miscreant | monstrous | nasty | naughty | nefarious | noisome | not done | not the thing | notorious | obnoxious | odious | off-base | off-color | offensive | opprobrious | out-of-line | outrageous | peccant | perverse | pitiable | pitiful | rank | rascally | recreant | regrettable | reprehensible | reprobate | repulsive | revolting | roguish | rotten | sacrilegious | sad | scampish | scandalous | schlock | scoundrelly | scurvy | seamy | shabby | shady | shameful | shameless | shocking | shoddy | sinful | sordid | sorry | squalid | stigmatized | terrible | too bad | unclean | undue | unfit | unfitting | unforgivable | unhealthy | unlawful | unpardonable | unpraiseworthy | unrespectable | unrighteous | unsavory | unseemly | unspeakable | unsuitable | unworthy | vicious | vile | villainous | wicked | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched | wrong | wrongful See Also | Infamous In Webster's Dictionary \In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L.
infamis. See {Infamy}.]
1. 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.
--Spenser.
2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act;
infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at
common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
4. 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.'' --P. Fletcher.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made.
--Dryden.
Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile;
shameful; ignominious.
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