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; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
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.
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Infamous Quotations
I will either be famous or infamous.
Otto Dix
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
David Brainerd
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.
Helmut Newton
I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.
Paul Reubens
When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
Charlene Tilton
I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
Adam Ant
Infamous Translations
infamous in Italian is infame
infamous in Latin is scelestus
infamous in Norwegian is beryktet, skammelig
infamous in Spanish is terrero, infame
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