False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.
--Spenser.
2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act;
infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay.
3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at
common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.
4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime
was committed, or as being associated with something
detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.
``Infamous woods.'' --P. Fletcher.
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton.
The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made.
--Dryden.
Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile;
shameful; ignominious.