| Infamy 1. (n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; as, a day that will live in infamy. 2. (n.) A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. 3. (n.) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. Thesaurus Entries abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, bad, degradation, demotion, depluming, desecration, detestation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, disgracefulness, dishonor, displuming, disrepute, egregiousness, error, evil, hatred, heinousness, ignobility, ignominiousness, ignominy, ill fame, ill repute, infamousness, ingloriousness, iniquity, knavery, loathsomeness, loss of honor, monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness, sin, stigma, terrible thing, vileness, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong |