as in notorious
not respectable
the infamous criminal who remains known only by the moniker of "Jack the Ripper"
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Last year, attendees included infamous crypto billionaire Justin Sun, the former basketball star Lamar Odom, and Jack Lu, the CEO of the NFT marketplace Magic Eden.
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Ben Weiss, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Jose Antonio Ramos died March 7 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, prosecutors wrote in a court filing in the case of Pedro Hernandez — the man now facing a third trial in Etan's haunting and infamous case.
—ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
The season will be the true test for Yamamoto’s training methods, which have been infamous since before his transition from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, and are already spreading across the Dodgers’ clubhouse.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Then there is the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit in which an older woman in Albuquerque suffered third-degree burns after spilling a cup of scalding-hot coffee in her lap.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
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Ben Weiss, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Jose Antonio Ramos died March 7 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, prosecutors wrote in a court filing in the case of Pedro Hernandez — the man now facing a third trial in Etan's haunting and infamous case.
—ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
The season will be the true test for Yamamoto’s training methods, which have been infamous since before his transition from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, and are already spreading across the Dodgers’ clubhouse.
—Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Then there is the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit in which an older woman in Albuquerque suffered third-degree burns after spilling a cup of scalding-hot coffee in her lap.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infamous
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In July, 2014, at the height of negotiations between the Islamic Republic and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, my wife and I were arrested and thrown into Evin Prison, a notorious facility known throughout Iran for its cruelty.—
Jason Rezaian,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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Why, some staffers wondered, would the federal government outsource the writing of such critical standards to a nascent technology notorious for making mistakes?—
Jesse Coburn,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Infamous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infamous. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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