infamouslyadv.
a. In an infamous manner or degree; with infamy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adverb]
famously1553
notoriously1570
notorious1574
infamously1611
flagrantly1756
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Infamemente, infamously.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iv. i. 277 Two melancholy brethren, that made away with themselues, and for so foule a fact, were accordingly censured to be infamously buried.
1666 More News fr. Rome (title page) According to the account of that infamously famous man, Dr. Lee.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 402 They are bought and sold as publickly and more infamously in all our Christian great Citys.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. 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.)
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adverb] > as everyday imprecation
wickedlya1375
terrible1490
cursedly1570
plaguilya1586
damnably1598
cursefully1606
damnedly1607
lousily1611
damnablea1616
execrably1633
excrementitiously1638
infernally1638
mangilya1640
putidly1654
infamously1695
consumedly1707
damned1757
damnationly1762
shockingly1768
damn1787
deucedly1819
peskily1833
pesky1833
beastly1853
dashedly1888
stinkingly1906
rasted1919
effing1945
1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. lvi That Poem was infamously bad.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 404 The second..infamously betrayed him.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. v. 180 He is a horrid brute, and uses Mrs. Lenmer infamously.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 98 His own class considered itself infamously outraged.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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