infamy
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I’ve seen Dostoyevsky’s deck of cards, read the first drafts of Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech, stared down the field from Virginia Woolf’s writing cottage toward the river where she drowned.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2022
Infamy seems to be at the core of the game.
From The Verge • Jul. 7, 2022
Infamy, for a certain brand of wild man and super-klutz, is not something to avoid.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021
But as with "Infamy, " this perceived barrier dissolves under the potency of the cast’s performance and stellar cinematography.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2019
The intrigues of the Duke of York were also of a most abandoned character; and the other brothers merit some notice in the "Annals of Infamy!"
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne
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