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  • But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!  (source)
    infamy = fame for something bad
  • 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)
  • 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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  • 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)
  • 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)
    infamies = extremely bad things
  • The world will know of my claim, and of Cersei's infamy.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • How can you abide this infamy?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The whole thing went down in infamy, spawning a live recorded CD and a series of festivals that continue to this day.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • What I want to know from you, Comrade, is what happened to the zampolit aboard, and what security measures were taken by your office to prevent this infamy from taking place!†  (source)
  • "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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