infamous

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I know I'm kind of infamous for my …. um …. verbosity ….  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

And I couldn't pass up the chance to meet Nolan Sorrento, the Sixers' infamous leader.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Appropriately, he played the infamous "Gloomy Sunday"—the anthem of suicide from Hungary—and although he aroused all the sadness for which the song was renowned, he brought the house down.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic's most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Timur's father had told them that they would have to "maneuver" through the infamously sluggish, ponderous Afghan bureaucracy—a euphemism for "find the right palms to grease."†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Those looking for serious land moved on, and this infamous marsh became a net, scooping up a mishmash of mutinous sailors, castaways, debtors, and fugitives dodging wars, taxes, or laws that they didn't take to.  (source) Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

Painting a picture that justifies her opinion of him-an underdog cursed with an ungrateful son upon whom he has showered love and concern, only to be infamously treated by that son in return.†  (source) Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, 1966

And Andrey had promised to set aside a particular Grand Cru that not only complemented the duck, but would inevitably lead to a retelling of the infamous night when the Count had become locked in the Rothschilds' wine cellar with the young Baroness….  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

"Indeed," said Bram, "grave robbing has long been practiced by various professions—physicians, artists, and, most infamously, necromancers.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom, 2012

City leaders have tried in vain to revive Middletown's downtown. You'll find their most infamous effort if you follow Central Avenue to its end point on the banks of the Miami River, once a lovely place.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

I'm banking on the fact that she's in the bathroom, taking one of her infamously long showers before going to pick up Izzy at gymnastics.†  (source) Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall, 2010

Using "separate but equal" language that previewed the Court's infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson twenty years later, the Court unanimously upheld Alabama's restrictions on interracial sex and marriage and affirmed the prison terms imposed on Tony Pace and Mary Cox.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

With a group of California scientists who dubbed themselves the "Traitorous Eight," after defecting from the laboratory of infamously tempestuous Nobel laureate William Shockley, he had invented a type of integrated circuit that paved the way for the silicon chip.†  (source) Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea, 2006