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countable and uncountable, plural infamies
The state of being infamous.
The state of having a reputation as being evil. quotations examples
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.
1941 December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Day of Infamy Speech
A reprehensible occurrence or situation. quotations examples
All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair. It is an infamy that he did not.
1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 251
(law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness. examples