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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infamy \In"fa*my\, noun; pl. {Infamies}. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See {Fame}.]
1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet.
2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a day which will live in infamy, . . . --Franklin D. Roosevelt.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infamy
noun
1: a state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: {opprobrium}] [ant: {fame}]
2: evil fame or public reputation [ant: {fame}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "infamy": abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, bad, degradation, demotion, depluming, desecration, detestation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, egregiousness, error, evil, hatred, heinousness, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, infamousness, ingloriousness, iniquity, knavery, loathsomeness, loss of honor, monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness, sin, stigma, terrible thing, vileness, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong
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