1. infamous - Adjective
2. infamous - Adjective Satellite
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.
Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.
Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. Paul Bourget
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you. Voltaire
The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Thomas Babington Macaulay
No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller. Edward Teller
At thirty man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves then dies the same. Edward Young
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. Thomas Browne