All 3 Uses of
infamy
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "Do you hear, sister," he repeated after them, making a last effort, "I am not delirious; this marriage is—an infamy.†
Chpt 3.1
- "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!"†
Chpt 3.2infamies = extremely bad things
- All that infamy had obviously only touched her mechanically, not one drop of real depravity had penetrated to her heart; he saw that.†
Chpt 4.4 *
Definition:
famous for something that is bad; or an extremely bad event