Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition, quality, or character of being infamous; infamy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
infamous ;infamy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not content with the infamousness in their time, the propagate their crime into other times.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Its international infamousness was recognized when it turned...
The Guardian World News Julian Borger 2011
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Its international infamousness was recognized when it turned...
The Guardian World News Saeed Kamali Dehghan 2011
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Its international infamousness was recognized when it turned...
The Guardian World News Mark Tran 2011
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Its international infamousness was recognized when it turned...
The Guardian World News Martin Chulov 2011
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Then I too could be embroiled in a national sex scandal and later use my infamousness to jump-start my own line of headbands.
Crushable Crushable Staff 2010
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"If we admit," said Des Hermies, "that the infamousness of the times is transitory, it is self-evident that only the intervention of a God can wash it away; for neither socialism nor any other chimera of the ignorant and hate-filled workers will modify human nature and reform the peoples.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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