infamous
/ˈɪn.fə.məs/ adjective B2- Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful. · He was an infamous traitor.· She is infamous for perjury.
- Causing infamy; disgraceful. · This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.
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What matters really, not only to me, but to officers of justice and the king, is that an innocent man should languish in prison, the victim of an infamous denunciation, to die here cursing his executioners.”
Wait my coming, O most infamous Bandar-log!” He panted up the terrace only to disappear to the head in a wave of monkeys, but he threw himself squarely on his haunches, and, spreading out his forepaws, hugged as many as he could hold, and then began to hit with a regular bat-bat-bat, like the flipping strokes of a paddle wheel.
Ah, that would indeed be infamous.”
“Your conduct has been most infamous.
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