English-Portuguese translations for infamous

• famigerado
  Esbarrámos com o famigerado acórdão Meroni. We came up against the infamous Meroni judgment.
  Como encara a materialização da integração plena da UEO na União Europeia e o que sucederá então com o famigerado artigo 5º? How can the WEU be fully integrated into the EU and what will then happen with the infamous article 5?
• infame
  Esqueça o infame polaco "Nice ou morte". Forget the infamous Polish slogan 'Nice or death'.
  Os infames Decretos de Benes são disso um bom exemplo.The infamous Bene? decrees are a good example of this.
  O último aspecto que quero frisar diz respeito ao famoso, ou talvez infame, ponto 22 deste relatório. The final point I have is on the famous, or perhaps infamous, paragraph 22 of this report.

Definition of infamous

• Having a bad reputation, disreputable; notoriously bad, unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something bad
• Causing infamy; disgraceful
• Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law

Examples

• He was an infamous traitor.
• He was an infamous perjurer.
• This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.

Related words

• infamy
• infamously
• infamant
• mark of infamy
• mark of infamy or disgrace