Sentence examples for infamously from inspiring English sources

The word 'infamously' is correct and usable in written English
It means something or someone being widely known for a particular bad or unpleasant quality or action. For example: The politician was infamously known for his cruel and unfair policies.

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infamously

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In an infamous manner.

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It is not the first time BBC journalists have had problems with politicians' names – Jim Naughtie infamously managed to mispronounce the name of the then culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on Radio 4's Today programme.

The US infamously has the world's highest imprisonment rates – but for once, it would make sense to follow an American lead on penal policies.

What else you got?'" The film stars Chris Pratt as a scientist studying the behaviour of the infamously aggressive velociraptor, alongside Bryce Dallas Howard and others.

For infamously tortured contractual reasons the Kinks had been banned from performing in the States for the previous five years, a source of great frustration.

It has also carried out mass kidnappings, most infamously of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok last year.

Graham Greene, infamously, reviewing Wee Willie Winkie in the London weekly Night and Day, wrote: "Infancy with her is a disguise, her appeal is more secret and more adult … her neat and well-developed rump twisted in the tap dance: her eyes had a sidelong searching coquetry … watch the way she measures a man with agile studio eyes, with dimpled depravity.

However, there can only be one winner, and in the end Jeremy Paxman, scourge of politicians and darling of the public (ever since he infamously asked Michael Howard the same querstion 14 times) was pipped to the post by relative new boy, Andrew Marr, the BBC's political editor.

In 1965 Mr Paisley infamously pelted Sean Lamass, one of Mr Ahern's predecessors as taoiseach, with snowballs when he visited Stormont in an attempt to improve relations between the republic and Northern Ireland.

Stern expressed cautious optimism about key talks in Paris at the end of the year, which will be the first significant attempt to reach a worldwide consensus on global warming targets since the infamously chaotic UN summit in Copenhagen in 2009.

They had been threatening him with a stint at the infamously violent Cook County jail if he didn't cooperate.

Previously a fashion stylist and writer, Bartley infamously agreed to start a fashion line while drunk with Grand.

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