| 单词 | infamous |
| 释义 | infamous (once / 801 pages) adj Someone who is infamous has a very bad reputation. If you become a Hollywood star and find yourself on the pages of gossip magazines for your affairs and addictions, you will have succeeded in becoming infamous. Infamous is from Latin infamis, for negative fame. If you're bad but unknown, then you're not infamous — it's reserved for those wicked and well-known people that capture our collective imagination. It is a strong and resonant term. Some synonyms are notorious, disgraceful, and odious. The stress is on the first syllable. WORD FAMILYinfamous: infamously+/infamy: infamies, infamous USAGE EXAMPLES“I’m not an email person myself,” Trump echoed during that infamous July news conference in which he invited Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) You may remember white nationalist leader Jared Taylor from Hillary Clinton’s infamous campaign ad linking Donald Trump to the fringe movement. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) The team’s infamous “tuck rule” playoff loss to the Patriots 15 years ago seems so less cruel and unusual when comparing season-impaling events. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) adj known widely and usually unfavorably the infamous Benedict Arnold Syn ill-famed, notorious disreputable lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance |
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