Someone who is infamous has a very bad reputation. If you become a Hollywood star and find yourself on the pages of gossip magazines for your affairs and addictions, you will have succeeded in becoming infamous.
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;
Adjective S.
having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
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.
Infamous
False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.2.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds.
The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made.
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;
Usage Examples
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
I will either be famous or infamous.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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