infamy

Found in thesaurus: dishonour, dishonor, disrepute, discredit

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infamy
n. bad reputation, public shame or disgrace; wicked or immoral act

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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"
(synonym) opprobrium
(antonym) fame, celebrity, renown
(hypernym) dishonor, dishonour
2. evil fame or public reputation
(antonym) fame
(hypernym) disrepute, discredit
(hyponym) notoriety, ill fame


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infamy
Rzecz. niesława; niegodziwość

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

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infamy
Synonyms and related words:
abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, bad, degradation, demotion, depluming, desecration, detestation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, egregiousness, error, evil, hatred, heinousness, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, infamousness, ingloriousness, iniquity, knavery, loathsomeness, loss of honor, monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness, sin, stigma, terrible thing, vileness, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong
  

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