Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Very bad reputation; notoriety.
- noun The condition of being infamous; disgrace.
- noun An evil or criminal act that is publicly known.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Evil fame; public reproach or disgrace; scandalous repute.
- noun Infamous character; disgracefulness; scandalousness; extreme baseness or vileness: as, the infamy of an action.
- noun In law, the public disgrace or loss of character incurred by conviction of an infamous offense. See
infamous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
- noun A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
infamous . - noun A reputation as being evil.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun evil fame or public reputation
- noun a state of extreme dishonor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The 99 Republicans who voted aye should know that Herbert Hoover's name lives in infamy for erecting them.
The Trade and Tax Doomsday Clocks Donald L. Luskin 2010
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On other fronts, condemning the 3L student for trusting her supposed friends not to subject her to web infamy is cynicism gone toxic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L 2010
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That name will live in infamy for as long as the US continues to exist; the most unintelligible moron to ever foul the Oval Office, as well as the worst president in US history.
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November 4, 2008 is a day that will go down in infamy as the day the American people, unbeknownst to them, elected the FIRST MARXIST SOCIALIST government in the history of the United States
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The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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It came two days after Independence Day, a date held in infamy in one of the angrier books and movies about Vietnam, Ron Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July."
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These kids were about 9 or 10 years old on September 11, 2001, the morning that “will live in infamy” for those who came of age in the 21st century.
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These kids were about 9 or 10 years old on September 11, 2001, the morning that “will live in infamy” for those who came of age in the 21st century.
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The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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This quote from former Sci-Fi Channel co-founder, Tim Brooks, will live forever in infamy, as he fails in epic fashion to justify the new name for the Syphilis Channel.
zanshin commented on the word infamy
You can hear the "Date of Infamy" speech given by FDR on American Rhetoric
December 7, 2006
lampbane commented on the word infamy
The unit of currency in the City of Villains MMORPG.
September 7, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word infamy
Since nobody has quoted it yet: 'Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me...'
September 7, 2008