Infamous
['ɪnfəməs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) 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.
(a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
(a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
(a.) 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.
格雷格整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Disreputable, of ill repute, ill spoken of.[2]. Disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, odious, detestable, scandalous, ignominious, base, vile, nefarious, villanous, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark.
整理:洛厄尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Disgraceful, vile, shameful, dishonorable, scandalous,[See HONORABLE]
手打:朱迪
解釋/意思:
adj. having a reputation of the worst kind: publicly branded with guilt: notoriously vile: disgraceful.—vs.t. Infame′ to defame; In′famise Infam′onise (Shak.) to defame to brand with infamy.—adv. In′famously.—n. In′famy ill fame or repute: public disgrace: extreme vileness: (law) a stigma attaching to the character of a person so as to disqualify him from being a witness.
校對:塞尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This a most infamous coach. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If I ever could reproach her with her infamous condition, I would go anywhere to do so. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- You have done me an infamous wrong! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The infamous dog has got every vice except hypocrisy, and that belongs to his brother. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You are guilty of an infamous conspiracy! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- That infamous letterDid she shew it you? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I hope you are not unjust enough to let that infamous letter influence you? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The way in which you are resolved and determined to disgrace us on all occasions, is really infamous. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I say again, it is absolutely infamous! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Opulence, said St. Just, is infamous. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- No quarter is to be given to the English, on account of their cruelty to our braves on board the infamous pontoons. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But an infamous crevice saved him. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Let us look at his infamous name. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Your conduct has been most infamous. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It seemed to her that no lot could be so cruelly hard as hers to have married a man who had become the centre of infamous suspicions. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Miss Wren proceeded; 'how many hours do you suppose it costs me to earn five shillings, you infamous boy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
校對:塞尔玛