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How to pronounce “infamous”
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Pronunciation guide for infamous
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of infamous with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Capitalism Broke the Climate. Now It Can Fix It
and its cities became globally infamous for air pollution.
- Definition summary
- Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
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How to pronounce infamous
Capitalism Broke the Climate. Now It Can Fix It

and its cities became globally infamous for air pollution.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “infamous”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having a bad reputation; disreputable; notorious; unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something scornful.
- Causing infamy; disgraceful.
- (UK, historical, of a person) Subject to a judicial punishment depriving (the person) of certain rights (e.g. the rights to hold public office, exercise the franchise, receive a public pension, serve on a jury, or give testimony in a court of law).
- (archaic, of a crime) Punishable by death or imprisonment.
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