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in·fa·my    Audio Help   [in-fuh-mee] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -mies for 3.
1.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]

1. disrepute, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, shame. See disgrace.
1. credit, honor.
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in·fa·my    Audio Help   (ĭn'fə-mē)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. in·fa·mies
  1. Evil fame or reputation.
  2. The condition of being infamous.
  3. An evil or criminal act that is publicly known.


[Middle English infamie, dishonor, from Old French, from Latin īnfāmia, from īnfāmis, infamous; see infamous.]

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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" [ant: celebrity
2. evil fame or public reputation [ant: fame

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Infamy

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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