infamy
Example Sentences
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"For most lone actor terrorists, infamy is very often what they want to gain from what they're doing," he said.
From BBC
Barely a week ago, they were cheekily leaning into their infamy like a Bond nemesis.
If it weren’t for Flowers’ touchdown, the Coliseum League decider — which could have been King/Drew’s first as a program since it launched in 2022 — could have gone down an infamy.
From Los Angeles Times
When Shelley wrote “Frankenstein,” Edinburgh had gained infamy as a site of murders and grave robberies that helped fuel a thriving trade in cadavers centered on the city’s laboratories and research hospitals.
Friends of Falls of Clyde, a group of supporters in Hawaii, described it as "a day that will go down in infamy".
From BBC
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