Sample Sentences for
infamy
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    "Yes," said Collective 0-0009, "we have much to say to a wretch who have broken all the laws and who boast of their infamy!"  (source)
    infamy = extremely bad act
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    One night as I sat, half stupified, in a den of more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to...  (source)
    infamy = bad reputation (famous for something that is bad)
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    As we both know, Liesel wasn't on hand on Himmel Street when Rudy performed his act of childhood infamy.†  (source)
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    Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.†  (source)
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    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!†  (source)
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    We all wanted more help, we were glad to think Snape was on his way.... "So when he arrived at the fight, he joined in on the Death Eaters' side?" asked Harry, who wanted every detail of Snape's duplicity and infamy, feverishly collecting more reasons to hate him, to swear vengeance.†  (source)
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    And she had suffered—so cruelly she had suffered, such agonies, such infamies—ah, God, the memory of them was not to be borne.†  (source)
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    It was an infamy that he did not.†  (source)
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    This moment of reconciliation, when we meet together united, this evening moment, with its wine and shaking leaves, and youth coming up from the river in white flannels, carrying cushions, is to me black with the shadows of dungeons and the tortures and infamies practised by man upon man.†  (source)
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    Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, he accompanied his infamies with so much ability of mind and body that, having devoted himself to the military profession, he rose through its ranks to be Praetor of Syracuse.†  (source)
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    The white children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankee politicians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of the neighborhood, fearful of confessing debts of honor upon the carpets of their fathers, found him a friend in need.†  (source)
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    "Of course," he muttered to himself a minute later with a feeling of self-abasement, "of course, all these infamies can never be wiped out or smoothed over...and so it's useless even to think of it, and I must go to them in silence and do my duty...in silence, too...and not ask forgiveness, and say nothing...for all is lost now!"†  (source)
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