infamous

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These infamous lines are certain to get copied quite a bit more.

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known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

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adjective

known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for infamous.

adjective

known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

Example sentences

These infamous lines are certain to get copied quite a bit more.

For me, all it took was the infamous "dumb fucks" quote to make me decide to never use Facebook.

Given AT&T's infamous coverage area, this might not be a good idea.

This was the infamous "7/20" all-hands in which the deprecation of 20%-time was announced.

OP here -- ahh the infamous top comment on HN; always good for a great mood killer to an article that was, simply put, really fun to write

A choice quote:Even Schmidt, 73, who headed one of the more infamous departments in the infamous Stasi, called himself appalled.

The feds turned Sabu, the infamous LulzSec hacker, by threatening his three-year-old daughter.

Standard ML's standard is perhaps the most infamous; it's a collection of mathematical statements about the language.

In anything, the socialist states were infamous for people not-working-that-much.

Purple has a single wavelength, magenta does not.>infamous color wheel you probably learned in schoolIt's based on Goethe's colour wheel, it's artistic not scientific.

We are to this day still piecing together charcoal smudges from the infamous 1973 St. Louis fire, to reconstruct scraps of salvageable information from WWI military records.

Their cognitive nature is considered rigid and prone to social intolerance, and they are fascinated by weapons, war, and infamous crimes or perpetrators of atrocities.