All 4 Uses of
infamous
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Let me recommend you, however, as a friend, not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions; for as to Mr. Darcy's using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has always been remarkably kind to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner.†
Chpt 18 *
- Again she read on; but every line proved more clearly that the affair, which she had believed it impossible that any contrivance could so represent as to render Mr. Darcy's conduct in it less than infamous, was capable of a turn which must make him entirely blameless throughout the whole.†
Chpt 36
- I told you, the other day, of his infamous behaviour to Mr. Darcy; and you yourself, when last at Longbourn, heard in what manner he spoke of the man who had behaved with such forbearance and liberality towards him.†
Chpt 47
- I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(infamous) having an exceedingly bad reputation