Infamous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Infamous \In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L.
     infamis. See {Infamy}.]
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     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.
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              False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
        scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act;
        infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
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     3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at
        common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
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     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.
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              Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
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              The piny shade
              More infamous by cursed Lycaon made.  --Dryden.
  
     Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile;
          shameful; ignominious.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infamous
       adj : having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious
             gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
             vice" [syn: {ill-famed}, {notorious}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  145 Moby Thesaurus words for "infamous":
     aberrant, abhorrent, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious,
     awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blackguardly,
     blamable, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, corrupt, criminal,
     damnable, dark, degenerate, degraded, delinquent, deplorable,
     derogatory, despicable, detestable, deviant, dire, discreditable,
     disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dreadful,
     egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagitious,
     flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hardly the thing,
     hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious, illegal,
     improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inglorious,
     iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant,
     monstrous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, not done,
     not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, odious, off-base, off-color,
     offensive, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, perverse,
     pitiable, pitiful, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable,
     reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, revolting, roguish, rotten,
     sacrilegious, sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly,
     scurvy, seamy, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking,
     shoddy, sinful, sordid, sorry, squalid, stigmatized, terrible,
     too bad, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unhealthy,
     unlawful, unpardonable, unpraiseworthy, unrespectable, unrighteous,
     unsavory, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy, vicious,
     vile, villainous, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched,
     wrong, wrongful