infamy
/ˈɪnfəmi/ sustantivo C2En español: infamia
- The state of being infamous. · December 7, 1941; November 22, 1963; and September 11, 2001. The three dates which will live in infamy.
- A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
- A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.
Plural infamies
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Elizabeth particularly, who knew that her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy, was hurt and distressed to a most painful degree by a distinction so ill applied.
Fraser, the tutor, died however, and the school which had begun well sank from disrepute into infamy.
“And did you not remonstrate against such infamy?” asked the abbé; “if not, you were an accomplice.”
Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate.
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