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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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infamy
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Definition:fame, but for a nefarious reason
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she saw him go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia's infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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I should be acting like the most infamous, basest of women.
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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!
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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promise you’ll not mention a syllable of his infamous conversation to my brother
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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it was a breach of contract to mix him up with such villainous company, and that it was poisonous, and pernicious, and infamous, and shameful, and I don't know what else.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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