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Watson’s portrayal of Franklin as a raging termagant who one day “in her hot anger” was going to strike Watson for interrupting her constituted one scene that lived in infamy for years.

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.

From Time

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.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to infamy, such as: notoriety, opprobrium, abomination, atrocity, disapprobation, and discredit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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