infamous

Example Sentences

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Of course, some of what he exhibited for his patrons had nothing to do with the real world—like his infamous Fiji mermaid, purportedly half monkey, half fish.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was an infamous incident which the Serb swiftly apologised for, saying it had left him "really sad and empty".

From BBC

Short selling in GameStop infamously outnumbered the total number of shares available for trading, so brokers would have needed to rush to the market and “bid it up to infinity,” Peterffy says.

From Barron's

The most infamous of these figures is Thierry Breton, who was instrumental in passing the DSA while on the European Commission.

From The Wall Street Journal

For much of his life, and for much of his day, Rubin was a mythic figure of business, famous and infamous for rising, falling and rising again as a star trader on 1980s Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal