_Dubious_ > "infamous"

[Wilson Gray]

Heard on a TV show re horror movies:

"This film is probably *most* _dubious_ for its exploding-head scene."


My WAG is that the speaker, caught up in the pleasure of hearing the
sound of his own voice and not wanting to break his own rap with a
hesitation, simply spoke the first word with any relevance whatsoever
that popped into his head. But, of course, one never knows. Maybe he
did think that "dubious" and "infamous" have essentially the same
meaning.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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