(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
(2) He will be asked to explain why he only once reputedly asked for assurances over Coulson, and why he infamously sent Brooks text messages ending in "LOL", which he believed meant lots of love.
(3) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(4) The 26-year-old – currently serving a domestic 10-game ban imposed by the Football Association for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic at the end of last season – could yet force the situation by handing in a formal transfer request , or even asking the Premier League to intervene over the interpretation of the now infamous get-out clause.
(5) The most infamous case of those whose bodies were recovered was that of Jean McConville.
(6) Now then, in his infamous rant at the press, Joe Kinnear told hacks to ask people like you what they thought of him.
(7) I had imagined that this would be an interesting journey, if not spectacularly scenic, since this landscape is infamously flat.
(8) Late-night on Philando Castile's death: 'When I watched the video, it broke me' Read more The host proceeded to discuss Donald Trump’s campaign-style rally in Iowa on Wednesday night, where “he was about to repeat his infamous claim that he’s done more in office than any president in history, although this time he caught himself, sort of”.
(9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(10) Yet Ferguson ignored him and the dispute over stud fees for Rock Of Gibraltar, the retired racehorse, started to have damaging ramifications at Old Trafford, with Magnier and McManus using their position as major shareholders to submit their infamous 99 Questions document, predominantly looking at 13 transfers from the Ferguson era.
(11) Mr Sharon is internationally infamous for being judged partly responsible for allowing the massacre of Palestinians by Christian Falangists at refugee camps in Beirut in 1982.
(12) Some of the Shia militias taking part in the campaign have also said they want to avenge the infamous Camp Speicher massacre, one of the largest incidents of mass execution by Isis, when up to 1,700 Iraqi Shia army cadets were massacred last year.
(13) It needs to be said that this is not about Imelda Marcos and her infamous collection of shoes , although her shopping habit is real.
(14) In the early noughties, over a period of four years and three big books, Niall Ferguson developed an argument for which he would become famous - or infamous, depending on your view.
(15) Gotti Jr's sister, Victoria Gotti, has been the star of the TV series Growing Up Gotti, which endeavoured to show the trials and tribulations of life bearing the infamous Gotti name.
(16) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(17) Life after El Chapo: a year on from drug kingpin’s capture, business is blooming Read more This is clearest, he says, in the lack of judicial action against collaborators of the world’s most infamous narco, the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, arrested a year ago amid much fanfare.
(18) Iranian citizens were included in the US president’s infamous travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.
(19) He said the presenter's infamous 6Music interview with Ray Davies, which the Kinks singer cut short after a series of increasingly obscure questions, was the "worst interview in the history of broadcasting".
(20) This performance was arguably more troubling than the infamous late capitulation in May.
Notoriety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) She had set up a blog advertising her availability for appearances and modelling assignments to make use of her new-found notoriety.
(2) Abu Khattala, who did not finish high school and never married, often appeared to revel in his own notoriety.
(3) But Kasidiaris, who shot to notoriety last year when he assaulted two leftwing MPS during a live TV debate, confirmed that the far rightists had set up a "local organisation" in Germany.
(4) The money and notoriety of McGregor, the business that supports it or its popularity, especially among young people, is no defence.
(5) As Isis’s international notoriety grows, so too may its unifying appeal to the fanatics and fundamentalists, the disaffected and the dispossessed, and the merely criminal of the Sunni Muslim world.
(6) The men were seized from the baths and dragged half-naked to waiting police trucks in early December, an event that achieved worldwide notoriety after being filmed and broadcast by a television journalist.
(7) Their notoriety stems from a case in October 2009 involving the oil trading firm Trafigura.
(8) In 2015, domestic violence got the notoriety it deserved as one of the biggest blights on modern Australian society.
(9) This is an attempt to clamp down on tax-avoidance on highly profitable businesses – a practice that shot to notoriety when it emerged that Starbucks had paid £8.6m in taxes on a reported £3bn in UK sales over 14 years in the UK .
(10) Methaqualone (Mtq; quaaludes or 'ludes) is a controlled substance, having a molecular structure related to the imidiazobenzodiazepine series of drugs, that has gained some notoriety recently due to its history of widespread abuse on the street.
(11) "He is now three days into a prison sentence and, probably worse than all of that, he has managed to achieve a notoriety and perhaps pariah status."
(12) Also this weekend, in another story that was overlooked while Donald Trump was tweeting nonsense that held everyone’s attention, the Washington Post reported that Obama dramatically expanded the power of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the secretive military unit that gained notoriety during the Osama bin Laden raid, “to track, plan and potentially launch attacks on terrorist cells around the globe” – even far away from battlefields.
(13) Or, as in Abbottabad, should those wounds be soothed with the Savlon of an amusement park – a place where those who wish to remember, forget, celebrate or condemn the reason for the area's notoriety can eat candyfloss and go paragliding together?
(14) Interest in writing this paper was stimulated by the fact that this class of compounds, particularly 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), has gained notoriety as an extreme environmental and industrial hazard.
(15) But Harry Fletcher of Napo, the probation union, said the memos showed real concerns about the danger to people who were being remanded in custody for the first-time on riot related charges: "They could be at risk of self-harm or of assault by other prisoners because of resentment about their actions or their notoriety."
(16) Taxi-app Uber is losing millions of dollars every year, despite the company’s rapid growth and international notoriety, according to documents obtained by US news site Gawker .
(17) He had appeared perhaps out of bravado, perhaps out of enjoying the notoriety, but he insisted on one condition: his face not be shown.
(18) Led by the success, and sometimes the notoriety, of these films, Russell progressed into the cinema.
(19) He achieved national notoriety after three failed attempts to buy Marks & Spencer.
(20) It was a combination of his notoriety and his persona.