Infamy

Not to be confused with Infamous (video game).

Infamy is the state of being infamous; that is, having a reputation as being evil, blameworthy.

Quotes

• Here Beauty falls betray’d, despis’d, distress’d,
  And hissing Infamy proclaims the rest.
  • Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)

• I know repentant tears ensue the deed,
    Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity;
    Yet strike I to embrace mine infamy.
  • William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

• The devil played booty, sure, with thee
  To bring a blot on infamy.
  • John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, "A Ramble in Saint James’s Park"; Poems (1680)