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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. a state of extreme dishonor;
- Example: "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt
- Example: "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city"
[syn: infamy, opprobrium]
2. evil fame or public reputation;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infamy \In"fa*my\, n.; pl. Infamies. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See Fame.] [1913 Webster] 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. [1913 Webster] The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a day which will live in infamy, . . . --Franklin D. Roosevelt.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
