Sentence examples for be infamous from inspiring English sources

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be infamous

adjective

Having a bad reputation, disreputable; of bad report; notoriously vile; detestable; widely known, especially for something bad

  • He was an infamous traitor.

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I'd be infamous.

They'd be infamous together.

Or should that be infamous?

Gail: I live in a city that used to be infamous for its crime rate.

The Luxor corniche used to be infamous for its boat touts and calèche drivers pestering any visitor who went out for a walk.

The town may be infamous as the base of Al Capone or the site of anti-integration protests in the 1950s and '60s, but today 80 percent of its residents are Latino, half of them foreign born.

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His answer was infamous.

Now he is infamous.

Being infamous is not fun.

The rest is infamous history.

(They were infamous because they were rigged).

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