All 7 Uses of
infamous
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- How it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practise for popularity on the lowest national antipathies and fears, and therefore Mr. Attorney-General had made the most of it; how, nevertheless, it rested upon nothing, save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring such cases, and of which the State Trials of this country were full.†
Chpt 2.3
- It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account.†
Chpt 2.4
- It was an infamous prosecution, grossly infamous; but not the less likely to succeed on that account.†
Chpt 2.4
- Let us look at his infamous name.†
Chpt 2.24
- "My mind misgives me much," said Mr. Lorry, angrily shaking a forefinger at him, "that you have used the respectable and great house of Tellson's as a blind, and that you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous description.†
Chpt 3.9
- Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.†
Chpt 3.9
Definition:
having an exceedingly bad reputation