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.
2.
infamous character or conduct.
3.
an infamous act or circumstance.
4.
Law. loss of rights, incurred by conviction of an infamous offense.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME infamye < L infāmia, equiv. to infām(is) ill-famed (in-in-3+ fām(a) fame+ -is adj. suffix) + -ia-y3]
—Synonyms 1. disrepute, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, shame. See disgrace.
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" [ant: celebrity]
In"fa*mous\, a. [Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See Infamy.]1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. --Spenser. 2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. --Macaulay. 3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness. 4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. "Infamous woods." --P. Fletcher. Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. --Milton. The piny shade More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. --Dryden. Syn: Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious.
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