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Definitions: Infamy |
InfamyNoun1. A state of extreme dishonor: "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city". 2. Evil fame or public reputation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "infamy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Infamy \In"fa*my\, noun; plural Infamies. [Latin expression infamia, from infamis infamous; prefix in- not fama fame: compare to the French expression infamie. See Fame.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: InfamySynonym: opprobrium (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fame (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disrepute | Dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness; turpitude; (improbity); infamy. |
Crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum, badge of infamy, blot in one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain, point champain; byword of reproach; Ichabod. | |
Improbity | Disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy. |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Infamy |
| English words defined with "infamy": Atimy ♦ brand ♦ Cover-shame ♦ Infamies, Infamousness ♦ mark ♦ stain, stigma, Stigmatical, Stigmatically ♦ Traditor ♦ Villanage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "infamy": Azim ♦ Iron Mask ♦ Susan. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "infamy": infamous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fame has a fifteen minute half-life, infamy lasts a little longer. (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) Fame or infamy, what does it matter? (Another Country; writing credit: Julian Mitchell) Infamy, infamy. (Carry On Cleo; writing credit: William Shakespeare; Talbot Rothwell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Arabian Infamy (1912) Day of Infamy (2001) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When he reminded him that his infamy had deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his head and looked the spectators in the face. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Roosevelt spoke of a day of infamy and summoned a nation to arms. |
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| "Infamy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Infamy" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "infamy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Askelon | N/A | Biblical | Fire of infamy |
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Expression using "infamy": seal one's infamy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
infamy | 21 |
day of infamy | 11 |
infamy war | 10 |
day in infamy live that will | 6 |
deep infamy mobb | 6 |
infamy official page web | 6 |
day infamy speech | 5 |
day in infamy live which will | 3 |
a date which will live in infamy | 3 |
ghost infamy recon war | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "infamy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude), poshtërsi (dirtiness, enormity, meanness, naughtiness, perfidy, turpitude, vileness, villainy, wickedness), çnderim (dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سلوك شرير (malignity), عمل شائن (enormity, turpitude), عار خزي (dishonor, dishonour, shame), خزي (contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, odium, opprobrium, shame), الخزي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | низост (abjection, baseness, dirtiness, iniquity, manginess, meanness, squalor, turpitude, villainy, yellowness), морално падение (degradation), лишаване от граждански права, безчестие (dishonor, dishonour, foulness, obloquy, opprobrium), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, obliquity, rot, ruin, taint, ulcer), позорно поведение, позорно деяние, позорно действие, позор (attaint, contumely, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臭名昭着 (Infamies, infamous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hanebnost (turpitude, vileness, villainy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ننگ (Dishonor(Ur), Opprobrium, Reproach, Scandal, Shame, Stain), سابقه بد, افتضاح (Debacle, Eclat, Ignominy, Scandal), رسواءی 2 (Calumny, Disgrace, Dishonor(Ur), Disrepute, Ignominy, Odium, Opprobrium, Reproach, Scandal), بدنامی (Blot, Calumny, Discredit, Disrepute, Ignominy, Notoriety, Odium, Unpopularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kunniattomuus (dishonour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | infamie, forfait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unverschämtheit (barefacedness, blatancy, brazenness, effrontery, exorbitance, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, offensiveness, outrageousness, presumption, presumptuousness, rudeness, sauciness), Ehrlosigkeit (dishonorableness, infamousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κακοφημία (notoriety, notoriousness), ατιμία (crookededness, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamousness, ingloriousness, knavery, roguishness, scoundrelism, skuldyggery), αίσχοσ (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, opprobrium, outrage, shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קלון (disgrace, prostitution, shame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | becstelenség (dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, foul deed, ignominy, squalor, unrighteousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kekejian. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | infamia (blemish, blot, obloquy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 廉恥 , 汚名 (dishonour, stigma), 悪評 (bad reputation, ill repute, unfavorable criticism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おめい (dishonour, stigma), あくひょう (bad reputation, ill repute, unfavorable criticism), はれ"ち. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | drogh-imraa (bad report), anghoo (discredit, disgrace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infamyay pessoa infame. (various references) infamie (dirt, disgrace, flagrancy, meanness, villainy), ticãloşie (abjection, baseness, blackness, dirt, filth, foulness, ignominiousness, ignominy, knavery, knavishness, meanness, misdeed, rascality, swinishness, wickedness, wretchedness), ruşine (abashment, abomination, bashfulness, blot, confusion, contempt, disgrace, reproach, scandal, shame, shyness, stain), purtare scandaloasã, porcãrie (bawdry, carrion, filth, piggery, piggishness, pigwash, swinishness), mârşãvie (dirtiness, indignity, lowness, meanness). (various references) позор (attaint, disgrace, ignominy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, shamefulness, stigma, taint). (various references) infamija, zloglasnost (disrepute), sramota (attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, opprobrium, outrage, shame). (various references) infamia (baseness, disgrace). (various references) infami, vanära (contumely, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, taint), skam (discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, opprobrium, shame), skändlighet (astrocity, atrocity, flagrancy), nidingsdåd (outrage), gemenhet (foulness, lowness, meanness, perfidy, trick, wickedness). (various references) การมีชื่อเสียงในทางลบ. (various references) utanç verici davranış, rezillik (baseness, disgrace, ignominy, infamousness, outrageousness), kepazelik (dishonorableness, dishonour, dishonourableness, ignominy, infamousness), kötü şöhret (bad name, bad title, disrepute, evil repute, ill fame, notoriety). (various references) ганьба (blot, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, shame, smirch, spot, stain), підлість (baseness, dirtiness, meanness, pettiness). (various references) ysgelerder (wickedness), anair (ill report, slander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dedecoris, dedecus, infamiam. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 10 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ne forte insultet tibi cum audierit et exprobrare non cesset |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Lest perauenture he asaile to thee, whan he shal heren, and to repreuen cese not. Grace and frendshipe delyueren, the whiche kepe thou to thee, lest thou be maad repreuable. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thy infamy turn not away. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Or your hearer may say evil of you, and your shame will not be turned away. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Tingali unya siya nga nagadungog niini magabuyboy kanimo, Ug ang imong kaulaw dili mobulag gikan kanimo. |
| Chinese | 恐 怕 聽 見 的 人 罵 、 的 臭 名 就 難 以 脫 離 。 |
| Croatian | da te ne izgrdi tko èuje i da ti se kleveta ne vrati. |
| Danish | thi ellers vil den, der bører det, smæde dig og dit onde Rygte aldrig dø hen. |
| Dutch | Opdat degene, die het hoort, u niet smade; want uw kwaad gerucht zou niet afgekeerd worden. |
| Finnish | Muutoin sinua häpäisee, kuka sen kuuleekin, eikä huono huuto sinusta lakkaa. |
| French | De peur qu`en l`apprenant il ne te couvre de honte, Et que ta mauvaise renommée ne s`efface pas. |
| German | auf daß nicht übel von dir spreche, der es hört, und dein böses Gerücht nimmer ablasse. |
| Haitian Creole | Paske, lè moun konnen ou pa ka kenbe sekrè, y'a fè ou wont. Y'a ba ou move non. |
| Hungarian | Hogy ne gyalázzon téged, a ki hallja; és a te gyalázatod el ne távozzék. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebab, nanti engkau dicap sebagai orang yang bocor mulut dan namamu cemar seumur hidup. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | supaya jangan, apabila kedengaranlah ia itu kepadanya, maka iapun membuat malu akan dikau dan perkataanmu yang keji itupun pulang kepadamu. |
| Italian | altrimenti chi ti ascolta ti biasimerebbe e il tuo discredito sarebbe irreparabile. |
| Maori | Kei kohukohutia koe e te tangata i rongo, a kore ake tou ingoa kino e tahuri atu. |
| Norwegian | forat ikke den som hører det, skal skjelle dig ut, og ditt dårlige rykte vare ved! |
| Portuguese | para que não te desonre aquele que o ouvir, não se apartando de ti a infâmia. |
| Rumanian | ca nu cumva, aflknd -o cineva, sq te umple de ruwine, wi sq-yi iasq nume rqu care sq nu se mai wteargq. - |
| Russian | "Б'Щ ОЕ ХЛПТЙМ ФЕ'С ХУМЩЫБЧЫЙК ЬФП, Й ФПЗ"Б 'ЕУЮЕУФЙЕ ФЧПЕ ОЕ ПФПК"ЕФ ПФ ФЕ'С. |
| Spanish | No sea que te deshonre el que te oye, y tu infamia no pueda ser reparada. |
| Swedish | på det att icke envar som hör det må lasta dig och ditt rykte bliva ont för beständigt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Infamy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imfamy, inany, infa, infam, infamie, infammy, infamu, infan, infand, infanty, infany, Infean, infin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "infamy" (pronounced i"nfumē) |
| 4 | -f u m ē | blasphemy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anatomy, anomie, appendectomy, Archenemy, astronomy, autonomy, dichotomy, economy, enemy, epitome, gastronomy, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, keratotomy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-m-n-y" | |
-2 letters: amin, ayin, fain, main, many, mina, myna, naif. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, any, fan, fay, fin, man, may, nam, nay, nim, yam, yin. | |
-4 letters: ai, am, an, ay, fa, if, in, ma, mi, my, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-m-n-y" | |
+1 letter: damnify, magnify. | |
+2 letters: ammonify, feminacy. | |
+3 letters: flamingly, infirmary, nonfamily, ramifying. | |
+4 letters: amplifying, antifamily, damnifying, effeminacy, infamously, informally, magnifying, manifestly, manifoldly. | |
+5 letters: ammonifying, filamentary, infantryman, infantrymen, inflammably, informality, informatory, interfamily, myofilament. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 61 6D 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01100001 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f a m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 0061 006D 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438072677991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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