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ˈinfamously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an infamous manner or degree; with infamy.
1611Florio, Infamemente, infamously. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. i. iv. 1, Two melancholy brethren, that made away with themselves, and for so foul a fact, were accordingly censured, to be infamously buried. 1666More News fr. Rome (title-p.), According to the account of that infamously famous man, Dr. Lee. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol 10 Apr., They are bought and sold as publicly and more infamously in all our Christian great Cities. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iv. 160 He was in a Condition to listen to the Insinuations of the Infamously famous Count Julian.
b. In a manner or degree deserving of infamy or utter reprobation; disgracefully, atrociously, detestably. (A very strong adverb of reprobation.)
1695Dryden tr. Du Fresnoy (J.), That poem was infamously bad. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 404 The second..infamously betrayed him. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. v. 180 He is a horrid brute, and uses Mrs. Lenmer infamously. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 98 His own class considered itself infamously outraged. |