Sample Sentences for
infamous
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    I know I'm kind of infamous for my …. um …. verbosity ….  (source)
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    And I couldn't pass up the chance to meet Nolan Sorrento, the Sixers' infamous leader.  (source)
    infamous = famous for something bad
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    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)
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    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)
    infamous = famous for something bad
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    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)
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    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)
    infamous = famous (for something bad)
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    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)
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    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)
    infamous = famous for something bad
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    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)
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    But it is perennially short of money, and like most parts of the United Nations it is infamously, inevitably, tangled in bureaucracy.†  (source)
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