Infamous

Definition: Infamous

Infamous

Adjective

1. Having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "infamous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Infamous \In"fa*mous\, adjective. [Prefix in- not famous: compare to Latin infamis. See Infamy.]. (references)

Literature

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Synonyms: Infamous

Disrepute

Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.

Improbity

Infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.

Vice

Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.

Crosswords: Infamous

A monstrous giant of infamous repute whom I intend to encounter (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Ah, the infamous Cash and Tango (Tango & Cash; writing credit: Randy Feldman)

This is the infamous tuna torture (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Then I'll make him infamous! (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko)

Infamous Conduct (1966)

The Infamous Lady (1928)

Infamous Don Miguel (1913)

Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell?: The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)

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Books

• Belly of the Beast: A POW's Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous WWII Japanese Hellship, the Oryoku Maru (reference)

• Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago (reference)

• The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee (reference)

• Undercover Washington: Touring the Sites Where Infamous Spies Lived, Worked, and Loved (reference)

• What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century: Infamous Massacres (reference)

• Infamous Daughter of Fanny Hill (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Infamous Angel (reference)

• Infamous Hamburger Transfer (reference)

• The Infamous [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The infamous Bilibid Prison Some Coast Surveyors were incarcerated here by the Japanese in WWII. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference)

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. (reference)

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Wonderful and terrible trial, from which the feeble come out infamous, from which the strong come out sublime

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Civil Liberties

Ghana

In July the Government resumed an investigation into the substance of a tape publicized in October 1999 that appeared to implicate President Rawlings in several infamous extralegal actions of the predemocratic era. (references)

Economic History

Latvia

The effects of the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement of 1939 steadily forced Latvia under Soviet influence until August 5, 1940, when the Soviet Union finally annexed Latvia. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

In August 1979, Macias' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d'etat; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed. (references)

Political Economy

Japan

The LDP's strong protection for Japan's inefficient farmers against the interests of the majority of Japanese consumers is infamous, but the Japan Medical Association works closely with the LDP to thwart needed changes in Japan's healthcare system and Japan's construction firms are locked in an unholy alliance with LDP politicians to build roads to nowhere and ozymandian edifices at the public expense. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "infamous": infamous character. Additional references.

Beginning with "infamous": infamous-five.

Afrikaans

berug (of ill repute). (various references)

Albanian

i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i turpshëm (bashful, censurable, coy, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, foul, humiliating, ignominious, ill at ease, indecent, inglorious, lewd, obscene, opprobrious, reserved, scandalous, self conscious, shamefaced, shameful, sheepish, shy, timid, unhallowed, vile, villainous), i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, picayune, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاضح (disgraceful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, outrageous, scandalous, shameful), ‏معيب (defective, dishonorable, dishonourable, inglorious), ‏مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, ignominious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shameless), ‏مدان بجريمة شائنة, ‏سيء السمعة (disreputable), ‏جالب سوء السمعة, ‏شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, inglorious, nefarious, outrageous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

срамен (inglorious, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, vile), скандален (flagrant, glaring, monstrous, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, shocking), с позорна слава, отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), опозорен, оплют (bespattered, spat at), невъзможен (bloody minded, impossible, miserable, monstrous, perishing, pestilent, terrible, unchristian, unfeasible, unthinkable, villainous, wretched), наказуем с тъмничен затвор, лишен от граждански права (deprived of civil rights), позорен (disgraceful, flagitious, ignoble, ignominious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful), долен (abject, base, bottom, contemptible, currish, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, iniquitous, low, lower, low-grade, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, rascal, ratty, reptile, rotten, scaly, scurvy, shady, under, unworthy, vile, villainous). (various references)

Chinese 

臭名昭着 (Infamies, infamy). (various references)

Czech

vykřièený, potupný (defamatory, degrading, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious), nechvalnì známý. (various references)

Dutch

notoir (of ill repute), berucht (of ill repute). (various references)

Farsi 

پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), مفتضح (Ignominious), نفرت انگیزشنیع , ننگین (Inglorious, Shameful), رسواءی اور (Scandalous), رسوا (Blatant, Ignominious, Opprobrious), بدنام (Disreputable, Unpopular). (various references)

Finnish

kunniaton (dishonourable), häpeällinen (disgraceful, ignominious, shameful). (various references)

French

infâme, ignoble. (various references)

German

verrufen (disreputable, ill famed, notorious), schändlich (deplorable, disgraceful, disgracefully, disreputable, flagitious, flagitiously, harmful, harmfully, ignoble, ignominious, infamously, nefarious, nefariously, opprobrious, rascally, scurvy, shameful, shamefully, shocking, villainously), ruchlos (dastardly, heinous, nefarious), niederträchtig (base, basely, blackguardly, caddish, despicable, malicious, mean, spiteful, squalid, squalidly, vile, villainous, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

κακόφημοσ (discreditable, disreputable), μιαρόσ (flagitious), άτιμοσ (coward, dishonest, ignominious, inglorious, knavish, rogue), αχρείοσ (depraved, foul, miscreant, rascal, rascally, scoundrel, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, vile, villainous), διαβόητος (notorious). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתועב (abhorrent, abominable, atrocious, execrable, ghoulish, heinous, hideous, repulsive, vile), נודע לשמצה. (various references)

Hungarian

becstelen (dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, ignominious, knavish, nefarious, shabby, snide, stigmatic, unprincipled, unrighteous). (various references)

Indonesian

bernama buruk. (various references)

Italian

infame (abject, flagitious, iniquitous, mean, scurvier, scurvily, vile, villainous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

悪名高い (notorious). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あくみょうたかい (notorious), あくみょうだかい (notorious). (various references)

Korean 

수치스러운. (various references)

Manx

scammyltagh (disreputable, ignominious, reproachful, scandalous, shocking), anghooagh (discreditable, disgraceful). (various references)

Norwegian

skammelig (disgraceful, iniquitous), beryktet (disreputable). (various references)

Pig Latin

infamousay.(various references)

Portuguese

infame (dastard, disgraceful, ignominious, scandal, scandalous, shameful, villainous), ignominioso (ignominious, scandal, shameful), vergonhoso (discreditable, disgraceful, disreputable, fie-fie, ignominious, ill-spoken, inglorious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shy), abomin�vel (hateful, heinous). (various references)

Romanian

infam (ignominious, low down, mean, meanly, nefarious, opprobrious, villainous), scandalos (disgraceful, gamy, mouthy, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, shocking, unworthy), ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, shy, sky), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, pestilent, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), mârşav (despicable, dirty, grovelling, mean, scummy, shameful, skunk), lovit de o condamnare infamantã, josnic (abject, base, base-minded, despicable, dirty, grovelling, grubby, little, low, low-minded, mean, meanly, nasty, paltry, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, slavish, sordid, sordidly, vile), execrabil (execrable, hateful), dezonorant (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonoring, dishonourable, dishonouring, disreputable, inglorious), degradant (degrading, infamously), cu faimã. (various references)

Russian 

бесчестный (disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, rascally). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zloglasan (disreputable, notorious), sramotan (disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, obscene, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful), ozloglašen (disreputable, double-dyed, noted, notorious). (various references)

Spanish

infame (nefarious, odious, vile, villain). (various references)

Swedish

nedrig (abject, base, lousy, low, nasty, scurvy, vile), ökänd (disreputable, notorious), ärelös. (various references)

Thai

น่าอับอาย (ignominious, inglorious). (various references)

Turkish

yüz kızartıcı suç işlemiş, yüz kızartıcı (discreditable, ignominious, inglorious, reproachful, shameful), utanç verici (disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful, sinful), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, low down, outrageous, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), kepaze (scandalous, shameful, vile), kötü şöhretli (of ill repute), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), adı çıkmış (arrant, discredited, disreputable, notorious, of ill fame, of ill repute). (various references)

Ukrainian

ганебний (detractive, disgraceful, dishonest, disreputable, ignoble, ignominious, obloquious, opprobrious, reproachful, scandalous, shameful, stigmatic), безславний (disreputable, inglorious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ô nhục (disgraceful, dishonourable, ignominious). (various references)

Welsh

ysgeler (atrocious, villainous, wicked). (various references)

famosae, famosissima, famosissimum, famoso, flagitiosa, flagitiosissime, in-, infames, infami, sceleste, scelesti, scelestis, scelestius, scelestos, scelestum, scelestus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "infamous": infamously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Infamous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imfamous, inbfamous, infameous, infameus, infamouse, infamu, infeamous, infemous, inflammatus, Informoos, tinamou, tinamous. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: amnios, animus, famous, fanums, fusain, fusion, miaous.

-3 letters: amino, amins, amnio, fanos, fanum, fauns, finos, foams, foins, infos, mains, manos, manus, mason, miaou, minas, minus, moans, monas, munis, muons, naifs, nomas, onium, snafu, unais.

-4 letters: aims, ains, amin, amis, amus, anis, anus, fain, fano, fans, faun, fino, fins, foam, foin, fons, funs, info.

+2 letters: ausforming, foraminous, infamously.

+3 letters: filamentous, fumigations, microfaunas, omnifarious, sulfonamide.

+4 letters: amentiferous, californiums, formulations, fulminations, malfunctions, slumpflation, sulfonamides, tumefactions.

+5 letters: functionalism, humifications, manufactories, neurofibromas, slumpflations.