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 infamous ['infәmәs]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 无耻的, 不名誉的, 声名狼藉的



    infamous
    [ adj ]
    known widely and usually unfavorably
    <adj.all>
    a notorious gangsterthe tenderloin district was notorious for vice
    the infamous Benedict Arnold


    Infamous \In"fa*mous\, a. [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.

    1. City officials agreed instead to close its infamous jail, Tlaxcoaque.
    2. The court's opinion in Dennison was authored by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, universally execrated as the writer of the infamous decision of Dred Scott vs.
    3. The most infamous episode, of course, is the new Attorney General's hostility to the standards promulgated by Edwin Meese applying independent counsel to Members of Congress.
    4. As in hundreds of other towns across Nazi Germany, terror struck Jews in this picturesque village on the infamous "Kristallnacht."
    5. Radio Soleil, the Roman Catholic station, said Joseph inherited the land from Zacharie Delva, an infamous voodoo priest and spiritual adviser to Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, who ruled Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
    6. But if Dr. Lapin is famous in some circles, he is infamous in others.
    7. Marc Quinn has reprised the perspex cast of his head, which became infamous when filled with his blood, to make a refrigerated receptacle for a hibernating frog.
    8. But he said some companies sought to disassociate themselves from names that became infamous in the 1980s.
    9. Is someone recalling the famous, or infamous, ENO Masked Ball?
    10. Auschwitz, located in modern-day Poland, was the most infamous of the Nazi concentration camps set up by Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
    11. The highlight was the Great Zsa Zsa Drill Team, in which several women and one burly man, all dressed as Zsa Zsa Gabor, re-created the actress' infamous policeman-slapping incident with men dressed as Beverly Hills motorcycle officers.
    12. Meanwhile, Romania's newly appointed minister of defense said that the Securitate, Ceausescu's infamous secret police, had been completely dissolved.
    13. The Pakistani economy is infamous as a graft-ridden swamp so deep that small reforms tend to sink in the bureaucratic silt.
    14. Auschwitz, in Poland, was one of the most infamous concentration camps run by the Nazis during World War II.
    15. Milken was to become infamous for the $1.1 billion he earned from 1983-87, $550 million in 1987 alone.
    16. The borough contains the infamous 1950s outer estate of Kirkby and has desperate unemployment problems.
    17. The most infamous was in 1956, when provocative reports on the Soviet invasion of Hungary fueled unrest and undoubtedly contributed to deaths there.
    18. Landsbergis was invoking the infamous memory of French and British appeasement of Nazi Germany that culminated in the 1938 Munich Pact sacrificing much of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
    19. The liberal view of stare decisis was captured in an infamous 24-hour precedent.
    20. Fire ants, infamous for chewing through underground cables and sparking shortages, have nibbled their way to the attention of federal scientists evaluating the Texas farmland designated as the site for the $4.4 billion super collider physics project.
    21. Amid all the hoopla over Mick Dundee, John Rambo, Willow Ufgood and other heroes of the new film season, the infamous Jason might be overlooked.
    22. Von Seckendorff-Gudent was allegedly also a member of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany, an early 1970s forerunner of the Red Army Faction.
    23. One of his first targets was a court system infamous for corruption.
    24. Later Bushy programs the radar computer to show Prince William Sound, and I watch as a radar blip identified as the Exxon Valdez passes me and approximates the course of the 987-foot, 211,000-ton ship to the reef that made the Valdez infamous.
    25. When word leaked out that Ivan F. Boesky would be taking the witness stand in Manhattan's federal court, news photographers and television crews staked out the steps for a shot of the infamous stock speculator.
    26. The Confederacy's infamous Andersonville prison camp in Georgia marks its 125th anniversary this year.
    27. When sleazy gamblers including the infamous Arnold Rothstein (Michael Lerner) propose "fixing" the World Series, most team members are vulnerable.
    28. Twenty years ago I did not realize I would become part of an infamous statistic.
    29. Tonight James's survey of people in the limelight looks at the late 'twenties and early 'thirties, the period which saw the arrival of the 'talkies', the reluctantly famous Charles Lindbergh, and the infamous Al Capone.
    30. Even in that infamous court, the vote was only four to three for San Jose.
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