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  • noun Plural form of infamy.

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Examples

  • The Convict Lease System and Lynch Law are twin infamies which flourish hand in hand in many of the United States.

    The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature 1893

  • Caracas: Today, the National Government has denounced a campaign of "infamies" launched from the United States against China over the Tibet incident and said that it anticipates the success of the Olympic Games in Beijing.

    The Moderate Voice 2009

  • But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist - I really believe he is Antichrist - I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!

    Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012

  • Dr. Brennan: He defined the culture of death as a lethal mentality possessing an unlimited capacity for engulfing a wide range of victims and employed an inclusive perspective for highlighting "whatever is opposed to life itself," such as genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, experimental exploitation of human beings, slavery, torture, mutilation rituals, and a host of other infamies.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • Dr. Brennan: He defined the culture of death as a lethal mentality possessing an unlimited capacity for engulfing a wide range of victims and employed an inclusive perspective for highlighting "whatever is opposed to life itself," such as genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, experimental exploitation of human beings, slavery, torture, mutilation rituals, and a host of other infamies.

    Media 2009

  • But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist - I really believe he is Antichrist - I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!

    Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012

  • Great shame to the Welsh or any others who attempt such infamies.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • At the end of an essay of 1947 Sarraute makes one explicit and passionate reference to the infamies of Nazism, with an explosion of rage, contempt and something that goes beyond all these emotions: “a huge blank stupefaction, a definitive and total bafflement.”

    Sarraute, Nathalie. 2009

  • And only then will democracy begin to wither away, owing to the simple fact that, freed from capitalist slavery, from the untold horrors, savagery, absurdities, and infamies of capitalist exploitation, people will gradually become accustomed to observing the elementary rules of social intercourse that have been known for centuries and repeated for thousands of years in all copy-book maxims.

    May Day Mourning, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist—I really believe he is Antichrist—I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!

    PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter: Health care fact vs. fiction 2009

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