as in notorious
not respectable
the infamous criminal who remains known only by the moniker of "Jack the Ripper"
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The lawyer in question is Roy Cohn, infamous McCarthy litigator and mentor to Trump during the 1970s and ’80s.
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
One of the most infamous incidents was when the President revoked CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials during a 2018 press conference.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
One of their missions was the now infamous Black Hawk Down incident that started as an initiative to capture two of Aidid's lieutenants.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
One day in March of 1911—the same month as the infamous Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City that trapped and killed 146 workers—a woman named Alice Hamilton arrived at the Sangamon Street works, a lead-smelting plant on Chicago’s East Side, and asked to take a look around.
—Daniel Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
One of the most infamous incidents was when the President revoked CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials during a 2018 press conference.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
One of their missions was the now infamous Black Hawk Down incident that started as an initiative to capture two of Aidid's lieutenants.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
One day in March of 1911—the same month as the infamous Triangle shirtwaist factory fire in New York City that trapped and killed 146 workers—a woman named Alice Hamilton arrived at the Sangamon Street works, a lead-smelting plant on Chicago’s East Side, and asked to take a look around.
—Daniel Stone, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Infamous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infamous. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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