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Definition of Infamy
Infamy
Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.

A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.


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Infamy Quotations
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
William Hazlitt

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
Pierre Corneille

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
Whittaker Chambers

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Robert Walpole

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
Jack Bowman


Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Sidney Hook

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
Ricky Gervais

It is an infamy to die and not be missed.
Carlos Wilcox

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.
Jose Maria Aznar

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Infamy Translations
infamy in Spanish is infamia






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