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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infamous \In"fa*mous\, adjective [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See {Infamy}.]
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.
False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. --Spenser.
2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
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.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. --Dryden.
Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infamous
adjective: 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
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