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无耻的,不名誉的,声名狼藉的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Infamous \In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L.
infamis. See {Infamy}.]
1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind;
held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to
infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an
infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.
False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.
--Spenser.
2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act;
infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at
common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime
was committed, or as being associated with something
detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.
``Infamous woods.'' --P. Fletcher.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made.
--Dryden.
Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile;
shameful; ignominious.
资料来源 : WordNet®
infamous
adj : having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice" [syn: {ill-famed}, {notorious}]