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infamy

/in-fuh-mee/US // ˈɪn fə mi //UK // (ˈɪnfəmɪ) //

臭名昭著,恶名昭彰,声名狼藉,恶名

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·fa·mies for 3.

    • : extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act: a time that will live in infamy.
    • : infamous character or conduct.
    • : an infamous act or circumstance.
    • : Law. loss of rights, incurred by conviction of an infamous offense.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounshameful, bad reputation

Examples

  • So for those of us who have been using it for years, its sudden infamy was unexpected and unwelcome.

  • He appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial later that year poking fun at his infamy, and after retiring as a player went on to become a successful manager.

  • Performance artist Regina Jose Galindo connects such crimes with larger political infamies in her native Guatemala.

  • In always admiring and sometimes loving detail, Isaacson narrates the excitement of discovery, the heat of competition, and the rise of scientific celebrity—and, in He’s case, infamy.

  • Some were even questioning if the NFL could survive its own infamy.

  • Lane is one of those criminals whose 15 minutes of infamy never seem to end.

  • Next day, DSK was perp-walking his way, haggard and grizzled, into infamy.

  • Dolours Price would later gain infamy as the leader of a bombing team that devastated London in 1973.

  • An adult-entertainment company wants Foxy Knoxy to take a paltry sum of money to extend her 15 minutes of infamy.

  • It shall be recounted, to the perpetual infamy and dishonour of the man who uttered it.

  • Audacious manDefies the threats of the avenging sea,And to new shores and to new stars repeatsThe same sad tale of infamy and woe.

  • But this pious reverence gave place to a more mercenary spirit, and the trade in relics became a traffic of infamy and disgrace.

  • It was then the badge of infamy and sign of shame—the punishment of the basest of slaves and the vilest of malefactors.

  • Diard was placed by public opinion on the bench of infamy where many an able man was already seated.