Both Uses of
infamy
in
Oedipus the King
- TEIRESIAS I say thou livest with thy nearest kin In infamy, unwitting in thy shame.†
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- And when ye come to marriageable years, Where's the bold wooers who will jeopardize To take unto himself such disrepute As to my children's children still must cling, For what of infamy is lacking here?†
Definition:
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(infamy) famous for something that is bad; or an extremely bad event