Crossword clues for infamies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infamy \In"fa*my\, n.; pl. Infamies. [L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See Fame.]
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Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy.
--Bp. Burnet. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.
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(Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a day which will live in infamy, . . .
--Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of infamy English)
Usage examples of "infamies".
And at other infamies besides -- infamies not to be set down in words.
And as I went on probing into the secret life of the great Metropolis of Mammon, and laying bare its infamies to the world, I saw the attitude of the church to such work.
Had Juliette paused but for the fraction of a second, had she stopped to read the placard setting forth this odious law, had she only reflected, then she would even now have turned back, and fled from that gruesome box of infamies, as she would from a dangerous and noisome reptile or from the pestilence.
Thas was Deroulede's stronghold: the people of Paris, whom he had loved through all their infamies, and whom he had succoured and helped in their private need.