Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: infamy
IPA transcription: ['ɪnfəmi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: infamy
    Meaning: evil fame or public reputation
  • Synonyms: infamy, opprobrium
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • But inasmuch as never from this depth Did any one return, if I hear true, Without the fear of infamy I answer,
  • never!" cried Charlotte, emphatically: "the virtuous part of my sex will scorn me, and I will never associate with infamy.
  • When confronted by their indignant men folk with proof of the /caballero's/ deeds of infamy, they said maybe he had been driven to it, and that he knew how to treat a lady, anyhow.
  • Various were the sentiments expressed by the different speakers,--some sorrowfully deploring the disaster; others more eagerly inveighing against the infamy of the man who had proclaimed it.
  • One night, as I sat half-stupefied in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some black object, reposing upon the head of one of the immense hogsheads of gin or of rum, which constituted the chief furniture of the apartment.