Use "infamy" in a sentence

1. Politicians come and go, passing through the revolving doors of power and celebrity, and sometimes even infamy, like eels sliding from a barrel

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2. with our offending the law, and objects to our infamy the transgressings of our education

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3. Who is not going to remember their whereabouts on that “day of infamy”, of

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4. in the annals of RCMP infamy, but June 19, 2009 has eclipsed the tragedy

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5. My newly earned infamy did not help me find other positions when I needed them, e

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6. But is it so with the so-called honor-killings of the unfortunate females whom the Cupid tends into the arms of lesser males across the caste barriers? What an irony is that men invest their honor in their women all the while treating them as vassals! What idiocy the honor-killing is - would it ever restore to the family the lost honor? Why, with the infamy of murder tagged to it, it only ensures a double jeopardy for the family, won't it?’

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7. “And it’s the way some of them conjure up wealth to earn infamy that makes for the great human tragedy,” he said with apathy

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8. It’s how the politicians miss the opportunity to achieve greater glory and instead earn the collective infamy

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9. All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth

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10. Carlos sat back and thought about his rise to infamy

11. As the Master knelt, all twelve arose as one man to their feet; even the traitorous Judas so far forgot his infamy for a moment as to arise with his fellow apostles in this expression of surprise, respect, and utter amazement

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12. 'Well,' said Conan harshly, 'is it not better to die honorably than to live in infamy? Is death worse than oppression, slavery and ultimate destruction?'

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13. Who lived withouten infamy or praise

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14. reputation falling to the level of infamy as Brown's did during

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15. a day that will live in infamy – although I didn’t know it when I wrote this book or did the first revision on it

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16. Who could beat the title of the world's last catch? Then again, who could shake the infamy? I think Fishmael is motivated by both the dream-like and nightmarish qualities of our mission, the mad old dog

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17. Amaranta Úrsula was inclined to believe that he was the son of Petra Cotes, of whom she remembered only tales of infamy, and that supposition produced a twinge of horror in her heart

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18. � Please understand that, for most women of my time, having a shaved head was a stigma, a mark of infamy

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19. On 8th December President Roosevelt at a Joint Session of Congress delivered his famous “Day of Infamy speech”

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20. Monday, December 8th - The United States and Britain declare war on Japan announcing December 7, "a date which will live in infamy”

21. The Day of infamy actually belongs to him

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22. The “day of infamy” mobilised all American resources that would eventually break on Japan with colossal force

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23. As the victims of the Mongol savagery would attest, there are no words to adequately describe the terrible injustice in the cost of life and suffering that bought one man and his band of killers a life of indulgence and infamy

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24. A day of infamy, it was, when the indecencies of former generations of trolls were allowed a comeback amongst a generation that on a better day would have considered themselves to be above such things

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25. No one would speak your name as they recited the town’s annals of infamy

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26. You decide to start a fight? My associate believes that you happen to be a zeppelin pilot of some infamy

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27. Apart from infamy, that incident had also resulted in her returning her medals of Commander of the Order of the British Empire and of the Distinguished Service Order, which she had received in Australia in 1943 while serving in the Papua-New Guinea theatre

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28. was going to be a day, a day that will live in infamy!” So the radio

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29. leap of faith, the pressure is in now more than ever before – the price of infamy is war

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30. Island, whose infamy as a dungeon built to stifle the spirit of freedom is

31. It loses all the ecstasy that another girl can give and entails, to boot the infamy and shame that fall on girls who lie with men

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32. But more recently as the manufactured infamy took its hold he wondered who he was once more, and why he was

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33. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain

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34. history of mankind, in all its infamy, has a means of death so

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35. This was going to be a day, a day that will live in infamy!” So the radio station said, left in the hands of one of Henry’s relatives, Dusty Leaves

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36. Infamous: Hateful; terrible; offensive; held in abhorrence; branded with infamy by conviction of a crime

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37. Oh the infamy! What was truly infamous was him knowing Pearl Harbor was going to be bombed and letting Americans die so he could use their deaths to declare war

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38. was the Inquisition era of medieval infamy, they would not hesitate to

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39. of medieval infamy, they would not hesitate to put to

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40. air to them that I wouldn‘t doubt that, if this was the Inquisition era of medieval infamy, they would not hesitate to put to

41. Recognising your desire for adulation, fame, infamy - call it what

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42. hostile air to them that I wouldn’t doubt that, if this was the Inquisition era of medieval infamy, they

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43. was the Inquisition era of medieval infamy, they would not hesitate to put to death or torture

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44. Such people have such a sinister, repulsive, hostile air to them that I wouldn’t doubt that, if this was the Inquisition era of medieval infamy, they would not hesitate to put to death or torture adherents of everlasting destruction” From chapter eight of a web page: www

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45. In fact, it was mostly because of Wellburtin’s infamy for causing seizures that it was withdrawn from the market

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46. Some passing thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind

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47. That, he had been the prisoner's friend, but, at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country

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48. What held her up--surely not depravity? All that infamy had obviously only touched her mechanically, not one drop of real depravity had penetrated to her heart; he saw that

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49. The poet did as she bade him, and left her without a shred of reputation, and she was satisfied by getting fame though it was infamy

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50. I was, in fact, born a slave, and chained by infamy to slavery during the whole of existence, without

51. from his house, nor separate, or tear, his children from him, however culpable he may be; and he, still the master of his own fate, enjoys the smiles of a world, that would brand her with infamy, did she, seeking consolation, venture to retaliate

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52. was I obliged to shroud my head in infamy

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53. Did she want Paul Morel, and did he know she wanted him? What a subtle infamy upon her

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54. Let him be the best of men, and let him be thought the worst; then he will have been put to the proof; and we shall see whether he will be affected by the fear of infamy and its consequences

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55. But about the wicked there is another strain; they bury them in a slough in Hades, and make them carry water in a sieve; also while they are yet living they bring them to infamy, and inflict upon them the punishments which Glaucon described as the portion of the just who are reputed to be unjust; nothing else does their invention supply

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56. for infamy and prostitution, in making one his wife, who thought herself

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57. "Ah, duelling," cried the count; "a pleasant manner, upon my soul, of arriving at your end when that end is vengeance! A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter; he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from heaven that portion of happiness God his promised to every one of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy; and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart

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58. If you deny that in the fifth scene of Hamlet he has branded her with infamy tell me why there is no mention of her during the thirtyfour years between the day she married him and the day she buried him

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59. As they remained at the window looking out over this scene for a few minutes after the train had passed out of sight, it seemed to Owen that the gathering darkness was as a curtain that concealed from view the Infamy existing beyond

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60. An Englishman visited Toulon, who had vowed to rescue two men from infamy, and his choice fell on you and your companion

61. Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate

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62. THE NYMPH: (With wide fingers) O, infamy!

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63. Infamy was babbling around her in the public market-place

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64. Then, also, the blameless purity of her life during all these years in which she had been set apart to infamy, was reckoned largely in her favor

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65. "I mean that the wife of the first magistrate in the capital shall not, by her infamy, soil an unblemished name; that she shall not, with one blow, dishonor her husband and her child

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66. I told her of the scaffold; oh, heavens, I forgot that it awaits me also! How could I pronounce that word? Yes, we will fly; I will confess all to her,—I will tell her daily that I also have committed a crime!—Oh, what an alliance—the tiger and the serpent; worthy wife of such as I am! She must live that my infamy may diminish hers

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67. But Arthur Dimmesdale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? None; unless it avail him somewhat, that he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal, and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance; that it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy; that, finally, to this poor pilgrim, on his dreary and desert path, faint, sick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy, a new life, and a true one, in exchange for the heavy doom which he was now expiating

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68. “Wave back that woman! Cast off this child! All shall be well! Do not blacken your fame, and perish in dishonor! I can yet save you! Would you bring infamy on your sacred profession?”

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69. But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!”

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70. incurring the reflection, however unjust, of having, for respects of fortune, bartered his honour for infamy and prostitution, in making one his wife, who thought herself too much honoured in being but his mistress

71. Into the details of the infamy at which I thus connived (for even now I can scarce grant that I committed it) I have no design of entering; I mean but to point out the warnings and the successive steps with which my chastisement approached

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72. I’d always known that infamy lay around every corner on Merseyside

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73. If we’d started out with the intention of taking the country by storm, we had to settle for a little minor infamy

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74. A mockingbird in the twilight of infamy

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75. It was the tale of a girl who traveled to Hollywood in search of love or infamy

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76. What held her up—surely not depravity? All that infamy had obviously only touched her mechanically, not one drop of real depravity had penetrated to her heart; he saw that

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77. "What a wretch! what a scoundrel! what an infamy!" she said to herself, as she fled with nervous steps beneath the aspens of the path

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78. which gained infamy during the bear market when the company went bankrupt and its CEO, Bernie Ebbers, was sent to prison

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79. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that it is not an unanswerable argument to say, "Can one wait when one is hungry?" That, in the first place, it is very rare for any one to die of hunger, literally; and next, that, fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, and to imagine that one can escape from misery through theft; that that is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong

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