Infamy
['ɪnfəmɪ] or ['ɪnfəmi]
Definition
(noun.) evil fame or public reputation.
(noun.) 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'.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
(n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
(n.) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement.[2]. Disgracefulness, dishonorableness, shamefulness, odiousness, detestableness, scandalousness, wickedness, atrocity, villany.
Editor: Vicky
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Despair, degradation, disgrace, ignominy, obloquy, extreme_vileness, dishonor
ANT:Honor, reputation, celebrity, glory, renown
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- He died of grief for the loss, and shame for the infamy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It will end in infamy, sooner or later. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Or you shall stoop to the lowest infamy of all, and force your way out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Some passing thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Do you assert, sir, that something in which _I_ am concerned will end in infamy? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The virtue of a brother must make me love him; as his vice or infamy must excite the contrary passion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I have kept your infamy a secret, she answered. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Whatever he might afterwards persuade her to, it was not on her side a _scheme_ of infamy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Edited by Lester