Synonyms for infamous
ˈɪn fə məsin·fa·mous

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1. infamous

   Synonyms:
   disgraceful, vile, shameful, dishonorable, scandalous

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1. ill-famed, infamous, notoriousadjective

   known widely and usually unfavorably

   "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";

   Synonyms:
   ill-famed, notorious

   Antonyms:
   reputable

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1. infamousadjective

   Synonyms:
   disreputable, of ill repute, ill spoken of

2. infamousadjective

   Synonyms:
   disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, odious, detestable, scandalous, ignominious, base, vile, nefarious, villanous, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark

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1. infamousadjective

   Synonyms:
   disreputable, ignominious, scandalous, opprobrious, odious, heinous

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1. List of paraphrases for "infamous":

   notorious, famous, vile, despicable, insufferable, heinous, nefarious, shameful, disgraceful, abominable

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1. List of known nicknames for "Infamous":

   The Infamous

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1. A.E. Samaan:

   The textbook in question in the infamous Scope's Monkey Trial was partially written by the Harvard educated white supremacist, Charles B. Davenport.

2. Sheila Isenberg:

   They want to be infamous too. When Scott Peterson was sent to prison, he got marriage proposals by the bucket before he even got to the prison. They know that if they get involved with these men their name or maybe their picture will get in the paper.

3. Adam Schiff:

   They have been leading the charge basically to require the Justice Department to give them materials that can be leaked or fed or misrepresented, like the infamous Nunes memorandum, in the service of the president, and in the meantime, they do enormous damage to these institutions. Ultimately, they will be held accountable.

4. Ed King:

   I am mainly known as the one who verbally counted off' Sweet Home Alabama,' then played the infamous Stratocaster riff as well as the solos in that tune, i am the luckiest guitar player that ever lived. Who could've guessed that song would pay the rent for over 30 years ?

5. White House:

   Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok andLisa Pagein 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday refer to then-candidate Donald Trump as a ‘loathsome human’ and ‘an idiot.’ More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content. The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign and contain discussions about various candidates. … House Intelligence Committee investigators have long regarded Strzok as a key figure in the chain of events that began when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the election that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate.