Definition of infamy

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

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Ignominy :: Ignominy (n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer..
Scandalous :: Scandalous (a.) Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice..
Brand :: Brand (v. t.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma.
Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption..
Cover-shame :: Cover-shame (n.) Something used to conceal infamy.
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) Any mark of infamy or disgrace; sign of moral blemish; stain or reproach caused by dishonorable conduct; reproachful characterization.
Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Villanage :: Villanage (n.) Baseness; infamy; villainy.
Infamy :: Infamy (n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
Smear :: Smear (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
Infamousness :: Infamousness (n.) The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
Stigmatist :: Stigmatically (adv.) With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity..
Infamy :: Infamy (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..
Stigmatical :: Stigmatical (a.) Impressing with infamy or reproach.
Infamy :: Infamy (n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action..
Traditor :: Traditor (n.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives..
Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness..
Soil :: Soil (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully..
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