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infamously

/in-fuh-muhs/US // ˈɪn fə məs //UK // (ˈɪnfəməs) //

臭名昭著,臭名昭著的,声名狼藉,声名狼藉地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having an extremely bad reputation: an infamous city.
    • : deserving of or causing an evil reputation; shamefully malign; detestable: an infamous deed.
    • : Law. deprived of certain rights as a citizen, as a consequence of conviction of certain offenses.of or relating to offenses involving such deprivation.

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Examples

  • Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous Florence whale explosion.

  • Only a few years ago, van Rossum joining Microsoft would’ve been unthinkable, given the company’s infamous approach to open source.

  • Dilmanov said the international attention “Borat” brought Kazakhstan was a good thing, even if it was a little infamous.

  • The infamous ransomware gang behind these new attacks is known primarily as UNC1878 or Wizard Spider.

  • Last year, she was panned on “Saturday Night Live” for a now-infamous interaction in which she dismissed a group of schoolchildren asking her to advocate for the Green New Deal.

  • I remind Deen that his namesake died in an infamously horrible car crash, so he may want to cool it on texting and driving.

  • They sang songs—including, infamously, Wild Thing—and catcalled at a female detective.

  • Weddings, birthdays and other celebrations are infamously difficult for those watching what they eat.

  • She infamously replaced the word “divorce” with her self-proclaimed term “conscious uncoupling.”

  • In fact he was there at that party that night in 1960 when Mailer infamously stabbed his then-wife, Adele.

  • That was what you were infamously plotting, when I so trustingly gave you my hand in the Chapel of the Assumption.

  • This infamously unjust proceeding took place in a time of disorder and under the seditious government of the thirty tyrants.

  • Nelson examined the books and papers which they produced, and was convinced that government had been most infamously plundered.

  • He stared coldly at this poor girl whom he had wronged so infamously and there was an aristocratic sneer on his well-cut lip.

  • Death before dishonor is a phrase which at times has been abused infamously, but it none the less contains a vital truth.