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infamy
[ in-fuh-mee ]
noun
- extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act:
a time that will live in infamy.
Synonyms: obloquy, disrepute, shame, opprobrium, odium
- infamous character or conduct.
- an infamous act or circumstance.
- Law. loss of rights, incurred by conviction of an infamous offense.
infamy
/ ˈɪnfəmɪ /
noun
- the state or condition of being infamous
- an infamous act or event
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of infamy1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Some were even questioning if the NFL could survive its own infamy.
Lane is one of those criminals whose 15 minutes of infamy never seem to end.
Next day, DSK was perp-walking his way, haggard and grizzled, into infamy.
Dolours Price would later gain infamy as the leader of a bombing team that devastated London in 1973.
An adult-entertainment company wants Foxy Knoxy to take a paltry sum of money to extend her 15 minutes of infamy.
It shall be recounted, to the perpetual infamy and dishonour of the man who uttered it.
Audacious manDefies the threats of the avenging sea,And to new shores and to new stars repeatsThe same sad tale of infamy and woe.
But this pious reverence gave place to a more mercenary spirit, and the trade in relics became a traffic of infamy and disgrace.
It was then the badge of infamy and sign of shame—the punishment of the basest of slaves and the vilest of malefactors.
Diard was placed by public opinion on the bench of infamy where many an able man was already seated.
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