Infamous
['ɪnfəməs]
Definition
(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.
Edited by Greg
Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
Checker: Lowell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disgraceful, vile, shameful, dishonorable, scandalous,[See HONORABLE]
Typed by Judy
Definition
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.
Checker: Selma
Examples
- 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? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This a most infamous coach. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Staid till midnight, but not permitted to land by these infamous foreigners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I ever could reproach her with her infamous condition, I would go anywhere to do so. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You have done me an infamous wrong! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The infamous dog has got every vice except hypocrisy, and that belongs to his brother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are guilty of an infamous conspiracy! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That infamous letterDid she shew it you? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I hope you are not unjust enough to let that infamous letter influence you? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The way in which you are resolved and determined to disgrace us on all occasions, is really infamous. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I say again, it is absolutely infamous! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You, with your practices of infamous foreign prisons and galleys would make it the money that impelled me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Opulence, said St. Just, is infamous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- No quarter is to be given to the English, on account of their cruelty to our braves on board the infamous pontoons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But an infamous crevice saved him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Let us look at his infamous name. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Your conduct has been most infamous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Wren proceeded; 'how many hours do you suppose it costs me to earn five shillings, you infamous boy? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Checker: Selma