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Example sentences for "infamy"

Lexicographically close words:
infamia; infamie; infamies; infamous; infamously; infancy; infano; infanoj; infans; infant
  1. It was a time when the fame of a great, the honor of a good and the infamy of a bad man were shared by their preceptors.

  2. It is a ten- legged nightmare, an infamy that I can never outlive.

  3. Revolting crimes increase and sexuality is tinged with the infamy of the Orient.

  4. Lascivious romances whose infamy was proverbial were largely sold and passed from hand to hand.

  5. The poor woman got her own photograph taken, and a friend managed to have copies of it hung in several halls and haunts of infamy with these words clearly written below--"come home, I forgive you.

  6. He shall go down to posterity with infamy attached to his name.

  7. Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas was to him an infamy in verse, and the rest of this author's pieces miserable melodramas.

  8. His ineffective attempts to find any traces of Madame de Fermont, and the ignominious baseness of the vicomte, who had preferred a life of infamy to death, overwhelmed him with grief.

  9. Louis Longuemare, ex-noble, ex-capuchin, had long been practised in infamy and crime before committing the acts of treason for which he has to answer here.

  10. If men like Tallien and Foucher, monsters gorged with blood and rapine, triumph, France is overwhelmed in a welter of crime and infamy .

  11. Egypt yield to Assyria why, a year later Egypt herself would fall under the yoke of Assyria, for by subscribing to such infamy she would confess her own helplessness.

  12. And do they suppose that I will sign the infamy of my reign?

  13. History will avenge you on your adversary, which not all the votes of all the slave-holders between the tropics can save from an infamy as lasting as the history of our country.

  14. Tyranny, imbecility, absurdity, and infamy all unite to dance, like the weird sisters, about this Crime.

  15. Well might it be said of the Washington Government, both during the war and afterwards, that not all the waters of all the oceans can wash away the stains of infamy practiced by it upon the South and her people.

  16. But what were they to say to this man, who, so far from having found torture in practice under the former governors, had attached to himself all the infamy of having invented this instrument of cruelty?

  17. Among the rioters, to sum up the account of their infamy and wretchedness, was Jack Ketch himself.

  18. The infamy of the father has reflected on the son, and enveloped him in a halo of murder and rapine which makes him almost as much dreaded as his father.

  19. I intend that the infamy of my death shall cover the Dictator with confusion.

  20. The broad mantle of this one infamy will cover with substantial blackness the radiance of your glory, and change to feelings of abhorrence the present admiration of the world.

  21. Does not so monstrous and disgusting an absurdity carry its own infamy and refutation with itself?

  22. By this brow Whose pores wept tears of blood, by these wide wounds, By this imperial crown of agony, By infamy and solitude and death, 90 For this I underwent, and by the pain Of pity for those who would .

  23. Some said he was a man of blood and peril, And steeped in bitter infamy to the lips.

  24. Caracalla's kiss burned like a brand of infamy on her brow.

  25. It was a good thing that she had not been there to hear how the master had stormed and cursed over the infamy they had had to endure; but the meeting with his birds had calmed him down quickly enough.

  26. You see that, for hundreds of years, Christianity has endeavored to put the brand of infamy on every intellectual brow.

  27. The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies.

  28. Yet the book justifying this infamy is the book upon which rests the civilization of the nineteenth century.

  29. Christianity, in order to defend itself, puts the brand of infamy on the brow of honesty.

  30. Such is the portrait handed down to us of him in those early days before the shadow of coming infamy had obscured the picture.

  31. But they shall be punished and held up to infamy as they deserve!

  32. If the reader has any curiosity to see more remarkable proof of the infamy of this man, Topcliffe, he may peruse another letter in Strype, vol.

  33. After this, will it be contended that the accidental appointment of an improper agent shall cause a refusal of the force necessary to drag our drowned honor up from the ocean of infamy into which it has been plunged?

  34. It was too gross an act of infamy to assent to, and the adventurers obtained their end by other means.

  35. I pronounce it and denounce it the infamy of infamies.

  36. Why did he not speak about the infamy of slavery?

  37. And yet I am told by clergymen that all this infamy has been kept up simply to establish the truth of the gospel.

  38. All the language of the world is not sufficient to express the infamy of polygamy; it makes man a beast and woman a stone.

  39. Because he believed in the infamy of slavery himself.

  40. We have had in Chicago numerous recent illustrations of the way in which police-protected houses of infamy save good women and girls.

  41. If this infamy was salutary, some other country would have adopted it as well as France; but there is not another monarchy on earth which has merited the opprobrium.

  42. This expression from a man himself soiled with this infamy furnishes an indisputable proof of the general opinion of Greece.

  43. Ed, it is nonsense to talk about getting Miss Bramlett out of the scrape; she has fallen into a pit of infamy so deep that no power on earth can lift her out of it.

  44. Everything seemed to point unmistakably to her as the guilty party; and if she was guilty at all, it was clear that she had sunk so far down in the pit of infamy as to render it necessary for me to separate her and Lottie.

  45. Very well; suppose she were to betray you, and sink into a slough of infamy as deep as that in which Viola has sunk--could you then lecture so eloquently on patience and hope?

  46. We had both sunk to the same level, and I had no right to reproach him for infamy which I shared.

  47. I have been the victim of one plot, but I will not fall blindfold into a second snare; and there is no infamy which my enemies are not base enough to attempt.

  48. What if all the crime, the falsehood, the infamy of the past few days had been committed for no result?

  49. He never would needlessly subject himself to the infamy and danger of being esteemed a parricide, without acquiring the security attending that crime.


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    Other words:
    abomination; atrocity; bad; contempt; degradation; desecration; discredit; disfavor; disgrace; dishonor; error; evil; ignominy; infamy; iniquity; knavery; notoriety; obloquy; odium; opprobrium; pity; profanation; sacrilege; scandal; shame; sin; villainy; violation; wrong