infamy

IPA: ˈɪnfʌmi

The state of being infamous.
The state of having a reputation as being evil.
A reprehensible occurrence or situation.
(law) A stigma attaching to a person's character that disqualifies them from being a witness.

Examples of "infamy" in Sentences

The 99 Republicans who voted aye should know that Herbert Hoover's name lives in infamy for erecting them.
The spectacular mistiming of his own 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, doomed the book to short-term infamy and long-term obscurity.
On other fronts, condemning the 3L student for trusting her supposed friends not to subject her to web infamy is cynicism gone toxic.
These kids were about 9 or 10 years old on September 11, 2001, the morning that “will live in infamy” for those who came of age in the 21st century.
It came two days after Independence Day, a date held in infamy in one of the angrier books and movies about Vietnam, Ron Kovic's "Born on the Fourth of July."
This quote from former Sci-Fi Channel co-founder, Tim Brooks, will live forever in infamy, as he fails in epic fashion to justify the new name for the Syphilis Channel.
That name will live in infamy for as long as the US continues to exist; the most unintelligible moron to ever foul the Oval Office, as well as the worst president in US history.
November 4, 2008 is a day that will go down in infamy as the day the American people, unbeknownst to them, elected the FIRST MARXIST SOCIALIST government in the history of the United States