infamous

Definition

  • adjective: well-known for being bad
  • adjective: having a reputation of the worst kind
  • synonyms: aberrant, abhorrent, abnormal

Examples

  • ('humorous') We experienced some of the city's 'infamous' weather.

  • a city 'infamous' for poverty and crime

  • He committed an 'infamous' crime.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Now the medical mystery. We must restore your reputation,Watson. There is a toxin refined from the nectar of rhododendron ponticum. It's quite infamous in the region of Turkey, near the Black Sea, for it's ability to induce an apparently mortal paralysis. Even for a logical and well trained mind, (..)
    2009 Sherlock Holmes