bad reputation, public shame or disgrace; wicked or immoral act
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(n.)
Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
(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.
That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.
(n.)
A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
infamy
\in"fa*my\ (?), n.; pl. infamies (#). [l. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. f. infamie. see fame.]
1. total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. the afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not submit to such infamy. burnet.
2. a quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
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.
infamy
n
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" [syn: opprobrium]
[ant: fame]
2. evil fame or public reputation [ant: fame]
Total loss or destitution of honor or reputation
evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal,an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act
*There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
*Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
*There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
*Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
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"
(synonym) opprobrium
(antonym) fame, celebrity, renown
(hypernym) dishonor, dishonour
2. evil fame or public reputation
(antonym) fame
(hypernym) disrepute, discredit
(hyponym) notoriety, ill fame
