The phrase "act infamous" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It could be interpreted as suggesting someone is behaving in a way that is notorious or well-known for negative reasons, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "His decision to act infamous during the scandal only tarnished his reputation further."
Alternatives: "behave notoriously" or "conduct oneself infamously."
In an act of infamous violence, paratroopers indiscriminately shot at and used flamethrowers, bayonets and clubs against the unarmed crowds, killing an estimated 1,000-2,000 people.
I watched as an alarmed woman asked her companion if he was aware of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the infamous 1882 law that kept out immigrants partly to protect America's racial purity.
Recent reports show light at the end of the tunnel for the Affordable Care Act's infamous website: smoother operation, fixed glitches and increasing enrollment numbers are all signs that the ACA may in fact reach its goal of complete operation by Nov. 30.
As happens with many local, seemingly instant scenes, there's already a gaggle of acts — Pink Dollaz, Infamous Kid, Freshboyz — waiting to take their spot.
The most infamous act is probably the gleefully ersatz Gaijin à Go-Go, a faux-Japanese pop band that has -- inevitably -- earned a following in Japan.
Yet the Smoot-Hawley act, as that infamous piece of legislation has almost universally come to be known, remains a shorthand for a counter-productive, short-sighted piece of protectionist folly even for some less than familiar with its details.
Until yesterday, Grimsley's most infamous act was slithering through a ceiling to retrieve his Cleveland Indians teammate Albert Belle's corked bat from the umpires' room at Chicago's Comiskey Park in 1994.
The most infamous act of cheating in the whole American canon – the throwing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox, as part of a betting scam – was reframed as a redemptive tale.
The relevant bits of the refugee convention were removed from the Migration Act in the infamous December 2014 amendments and replaced by a definition of "refugee" narrower than that in the convention.
Examples are legion; in Britain we have, among others, the debacle of the Official Secrets Act 1911, the infamous "Section 2" of which caused 78 years of mischief by being too vague and wide-ranging.
