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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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infamous


infamous is an   Adverb

Definition:

[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] 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.


Synonyms:

base
detestable
disgraceful
odious
scandalous
shameful
vile
ignominiou

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