badge of infamy
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In fact, the cross was a badge of infamy and was enforced as such by public action.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
They are obviously and incontestably of the class described by a witty writer to whom "a lace petticoat is as much a badge of infamy as a cigarette on the stage."
From A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes by Lady Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson
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