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单词 infamously
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Definition of infamously in English:

infamously

adverbˈɪnfəməsliˈɪnfəməsli
  • In a way that is well known for some bad quality or deed.

    he infamously remarked that he hadn't read the Treaty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His crowd was infamously brutal, especially to the weaker of their own kind.
    • The popes of the later 15th century behaved like temporal princes, notoriously political and infamously corrupt.
    • Shakespeare's stage—that infamously barren, wooden O—was perhaps a bit more cluttered than previously thought.
    • In one of his more whimsical works, Sock, he attached a man's white sock to a canvas, a theme to which he would infamously return in 1992.
    • For the architect, establishing a relationship with the backyard mitigates the ranch's infamously low ceilings.
    • We have adopted the model somewhat infamously described in Animal Farm where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
    • In 1895, Booker T. Washington infamously counseled accommodation to racial discrimination in exchange for material progress that never materialized.
    • In 1949, the first Bollingen Prize went somewhat infamously to Ezra Pound.
    • He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues.
    • In the 1990s, the ports infamously dumped inner-harbor dredgings in a popular fishing spot near the islands.

Definition of infamously in US English:

infamously

adverbˈinfəməslēˈɪnfəməsli
  • In a way that is well known for some bad quality or deed.

    he infamously remarked that he hadn't read the Treaty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1895, Booker T. Washington infamously counseled accommodation to racial discrimination in exchange for material progress that never materialized.
    • In one of his more whimsical works, Sock, he attached a man's white sock to a canvas, a theme to which he would infamously return in 1992.
    • In 1949, the first Bollingen Prize went somewhat infamously to Ezra Pound.
    • He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues.
    • His crowd was infamously brutal, especially to the weaker of their own kind.
    • Shakespeare's stage—that infamously barren, wooden O—was perhaps a bit more cluttered than previously thought.
    • In the 1990s, the ports infamously dumped inner-harbor dredgings in a popular fishing spot near the islands.
    • The popes of the later 15th century behaved like temporal princes, notoriously political and infamously corrupt.
    • We have adopted the model somewhat infamously described in Animal Farm where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
    • For the architect, establishing a relationship with the backyard mitigates the ranch's infamously low ceilings.
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