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    infamous


    1. The infamous Black Dahlia case of the 1940s and a much more contemporary case from the 90s


    2. “Today, March thirtieth, is an infamous day


    3. In Genesis 2:24, we find the infamous Scripture that a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh


    4. Ken McCoist and Jock Cascarino, late of Barnstaple parish, formerly and briefly infamous for being run out of Glasgow city's nether regions by the Licensee, gaze out dumbly at a world fundamentally changed, and like dinosaurs grazing in the shadow of the comet, like the Romanov family in a cold country house parlour, they have no understanding of the revolution


    5. But these were ex-inmates of one of Britain’s most infamous prisons


    6. In spite of this sad state of affairs Fizzicist and Tables accompanied by several local highbrows descended on to the infamous city and were immediately lost in a crowd all demanding extra flights


    7. If he opposes them, on the contrary, and still more, if he has authority enough to be able to thwart them, neither the most acknowledged probity, nor the highest rank, nor the greatest public services, can protect him from the most infamous abuse and detraction, from personal insults, nor sometimes from real danger, arising from the insolent outrage of furious and disappointed monopolists


    8. He had decided to become the galaxy's most infamous interplanetary reporter


    9. As Assistant Attorney General under Clinton, formed the infamous wall between the activities of the CIA and FBI, thus contributing mightily to the disaster of 9/ll, without so much as an admonishment from her president


    10. Not to be confused wit Hannibal Lecter, the infamous cannibal of the late 1980"s movie

    11. Then comes Descartes, and his infamous „Discourse on Method" in which he said, among other nonsense things, that he would begin by doubting everything except his own thinking and therefore his own existence


    12. With this move, the infamous and


    13. At the bottom was a picture of Raven facing Khan in their infamous battle


    14. The underground chambers of the infamous Ruby Tower told a story of murder and torture, and forensic teams have so far uncovered the remains of over a thousand people, of whom only a few have been identified


    15. Manna was infamous and well respected across the lands


    16. Vandewater of the 71st, led to an infamous charge, made by certain cowardly volunteers, that the two chaplains had robbed dead bodies as they lay on the field


    17. The word "necklace" was made infamous by one Winnie Mandela in a speech when she said “Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country


    18. Soon the Riot Units became infamous for subduing protests using considerable violence


    19. They had dated while at school for a while, broken up and a year ago had fallen in love again at the infamous Showboat


    20. It gave rise to their first-rate (some say infamous) Counter Insurgency Units (SAP COIN) which would greatly trouble terrorists for the next twenty odd years

    21. She took a direct path towards the infamous picnic area


    22. Follow Isidora through a couple of more weeks of slave training at the infamous slave training school, Cleaver


    23. All SAP COIN units were infamous for this type of thing and I was very disappointed when I found out the Army would gladly give us what we wanted and needed if we would only be bothered to ask and sign for it


    24. The most infamous example was Sutter's Mill, where the first discovery of gold was made


    25. Saddam Hussein and the Baathist Party ordered the largest wave of killings, including the infamous attack on Kurd villages with poison gas


    26. In the US-Vietnam War its use became notorious, especially the infamous photo of a young girl running, burned and screaming


    27. Far worse, Winship brutally crushed independence demonstrations in two infamous massacres, at Rio Piedras in 1935 and Ponce in 1937


    28. However, terrorism sowed terror and succeeded to incite indignation, hatred and fear with the infamous massacre of March 11 in Madrid, just three days before the elections


    29. In this context, he painfully contemplates with a deeply felt sense of patriotism how the Twin Towers of New York, once marvels of engineering and imagination, on that infamous day of September 11, 2001, became


    30. Calhoun was also one of the first and the most infamous of racists to claim slavery was not a necessary evil but even “a positive good” for the slave

    31. Whether Grant remains president (he had actually run again in 1880) or Rutherford Hayes wins, likely neither need the infamous Compromise of 1876


    32. Still, he found it impossible to believe that someone would actually select the name Truman Herrera as their alias when on a mission of murder because Truman was none other than the infamous Comandante Cobra and his name was as far from inconspicuous as could be


    33. The embassy would be delighted to have the infamous Comandante Cobra assisting him in returning former combatants peacefully to their homeland, a demonstration of good intentions that would definitely keep the aid dollars flowing


    34. It was the infamous tank that had smashed through the gates of the American embassy in the last days of 1975, during the fall of Saigon


    35. Time flies when you’re breakin’ in the basement, I guess but it was that time on the Tic Toc to start making my way towards the infamous Chicagoland Rink


    36. The IPCC introduced the infamous and much repudiated “hockey stick” graph that Mr


    37. stimulate the postsynaptic nerve, bringing on the infamous “high


    38. As “Lady Cinder” was many times more infamous than the true Supreme


    39. The infamous Seventh Cavalry (Custer’s former command) herded the Sioux into camps


    40. The infamous “Walking Purchase” was one of the first, and Jason had brought it up at the camping trip

    41. -- I think it is caused by genetic "inferior" natural family this conclusion is not correct, not naturally inferior nation or family in the world, their behavior caused the infamous bad related to acquired the


    42. I had enjoyed one of the free lunchtime classical music concerts given there, on more than one occasion and I also knew that Nell Gwynne, the infamous mistress of King Charles II was buried there


    43. “What about the infamous Hotcangara?”


    44. “Oh, they’re not so infamous anymore


    45. you, shall mock you, which are infamous and much vexed


    46. He then asked me if it was wrong to be unmoved at the death of Toragana and that of the infamous Chabi, for that matter


    47. So the Democrats changed the rules, and used the now infamous “reconciliation” process, which requires only 51 votes in the Senate, to squeak Obamacare through, When sent back to the House, as required, Ms


    48. That ignominious September 11 of 2001 will be remembered as one of the most infamous days in


    49. Newfoundland is also infamous for its indifference to one of its most precious


    50. During the infamous 1968 Democratic convention, while working for Motorola, but still living in South Shore, I stopped at Jimmie’s one weeknight and got blitzed worse than normal














































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    Synonyms for "infamous"

    ill-famed infamous notorious ignoble opprobrious nefarious shameful vile villainous bad base detestable

    "infamous" definitions

    known widely and usually unfavorably