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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown]
2: evil fame or public reputation [ant: fame]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -mies) Date: 15th century 1. evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal 2. a. an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act b. the state of being infamous Synonyms: see disgrace

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Infamy In"fa*my, n.; pl. Infamies. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See Fame.] 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. --Bp. Burnet. 2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. 3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Infamy is the state of being infamous. (FORMAL) ...one of the greatest acts of infamy in history... = notoriety

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement. 2. Disgracefulness, dishonorableness, shamefulness, odiousness, detestableness, scandalousness, wickedness, atrocity, villany.

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, bad, degradation, demotion, depluming, desecration, detestation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, egregiousness, error, evil, hatred, heinousness, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, infamousness, ingloriousness, iniquity, knavery, loathsomeness, loss of honor, monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness, sin, stigma, terrible thing, vileness, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong