Definition of infamously in English:
infamously
adverbˈɪnfəməsliˈɪnfəməsli
In a way that is well known for some bad quality or deed.
he infamously remarked that he hadn't read the Treaty
Example sentencesExamples
- His crowd was infamously brutal, especially to the weaker of their own kind.
- The popes of the later 15th century behaved like temporal princes, notoriously political and infamously corrupt.
- Shakespeare's stage—that infamously barren, wooden O—was perhaps a bit more cluttered than previously thought.
- In one of his more whimsical works, Sock, he attached a man's white sock to a canvas, a theme to which he would infamously return in 1992.
- For the architect, establishing a relationship with the backyard mitigates the ranch's infamously low ceilings.
- We have adopted the model somewhat infamously described in Animal Farm where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
- In 1895, Booker T. Washington infamously counseled accommodation to racial discrimination in exchange for material progress that never materialized.
- In 1949, the first Bollingen Prize went somewhat infamously to Ezra Pound.
- He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues.
- In the 1990s, the ports infamously dumped inner-harbor dredgings in a popular fishing spot near the islands.
Definition of infamously in US English:
infamously
adverbˈinfəməslēˈɪnfəməsli
In a way that is well known for some bad quality or deed.
he infamously remarked that he hadn't read the Treaty
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1895, Booker T. Washington infamously counseled accommodation to racial discrimination in exchange for material progress that never materialized.
- In one of his more whimsical works, Sock, he attached a man's white sock to a canvas, a theme to which he would infamously return in 1992.
- In 1949, the first Bollingen Prize went somewhat infamously to Ezra Pound.
- He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues.
- His crowd was infamously brutal, especially to the weaker of their own kind.
- Shakespeare's stage—that infamously barren, wooden O—was perhaps a bit more cluttered than previously thought.
- In the 1990s, the ports infamously dumped inner-harbor dredgings in a popular fishing spot near the islands.
- The popes of the later 15th century behaved like temporal princes, notoriously political and infamously corrupt.
- We have adopted the model somewhat infamously described in Animal Farm where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
- For the architect, establishing a relationship with the backyard mitigates the ranch's infamously low ceilings.