infamous

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Justice Minister Naomi Long said that "anyone profiting from being infamous is always a major concern" and that she does not believe that anyone "should profit from criminal activity of any kind".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Those of ancient lineage may be thinking of the infamous LBJ phone call badgering the head of ABC to get college-football broadcasts for Lady Bird’s TV station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Perhaps most infamous: the 1997 segment where a child portrayed by a pre–Sixth Sense Haley Joel Osment reveals to another character that “Walker told me I have AIDS.”

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

Prior to that purchase, Cage faced troubles with an infamous “haunted” mansion situated in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

During the Harding administration, in the early 1920s, the Justice Department had been packed with political cronies and unscrupulous officials, among them the head of the bureau: William Burns, the infamous private eye.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann