EGAVE

infamous

About 1.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
    He was an infamous traitor.
  2. adjective Causing infamy; disgraceful.
    This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.
  3. adjective Subject to a judicial punishment depriving (the person) of certain rights (e.g. the rights to hold public office, exercise the franchise, receive a public pension, serve on a jury, or give testimony in a court of law).
  4. adjective Punishable by death or imprisonment.

Similar words

ill-famed notorious disreputable nefarious evil scandalous disgraceful shameful sinister ignominious

Often followed by

for and crime in of as character conduct to

Word family

infamously

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