INFAMOUS in a Sentence

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Dantes recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFAMOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
infamous
 a.  notoriously bad; having exceedingly bad reputation
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
2  There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—BRUNESEAU
3  Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
4  Yes, if they fell into infamous hands.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME
5  It was even, according to our present manners, something like an infamous action; but at that period people did not manage affairs as they do today.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
6  Your Milady," said he, "appears to be an infamous creature, but not the less you have done wrong to deceive her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
7  The day after tomorrow he banishes me, he transports me; the day after tomorrow he exiles me among the infamous.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
8  Oh," said Milady, raising herself, "I defy you to find any tribunal which pronounced that infamous sentence against me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
9  "Yes, and that's all settled; only it will be an infamous shame;" and he stretched out his hand to reach the letter.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4. Conspiracy.
10  Dantes had always entertained the greatest horror of pirates, who are hung up to the yard-arm; he would not die by what seemed an infamous death.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
11  Dantes recoiled from the idea of so infamous a death, and passed suddenly from despair to an ardent desire for life and liberty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If.
12  It would be perfectly infamous of you.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
13  I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
14  This I solemnly declare to be a most infamous falsehood, without any grounds, further than that her grace was pleased to treat me with all innocent marks of freedom and friendship.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
15  If I ever could reproach her with her infamous condition, I would go anywhere to do so.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Example Sentence:
1  The fist is still there, but it wears that infamous velvet glove.
2  At this courtroom he would become known as the infamous man in the bulletproof glass booth.
3  The police tried to keep track of the infamous local firebrand when the President came to town.
4  The search giant said that all text entered will be made indecipherable automatically, in a move that could render the "Great Firewall" - China's infamous internet censorship system - useless for tracing the activity of Google users.
5  The list included the infamous George Drake, a double murderer.