infamise
Definition
- Verb:
- To bring infamy upon someone or something: "infamise" means to make someone or something infamous, to cause them to be widely known for a bad quality or deed, or to disgrace them publicly.
Usage Examples
- (The article aimed to make the politician infamous by spreading disgrace.)
- (His deeds brought disgrace and notoriety to the whole organization.)
Advanced Usage
"to infamise oneself": to bring disgrace upon oneself through one's own actions.
- By betraying his closest friends, he infamised himself in the eyes of the community. (He made himself infamous through his own betrayal.)
"to infamise a name": to tarnish a reputation or legacy.
- The dictator's atrocities infamised the nation's name for generations. (The evil deeds permanently stained the country's reputation.)
Variants and Related Words
Infamy (n): the state of being well known for a bad quality or deed; disgrace.
- The traitor's name lives in infamy. (The traitor is remembered with great dishonor.)
Infamous (adj): well known for some bad quality or deed; notorious.
- He was an infamous criminal. (He was a criminal notorious for his evil acts.)
Synonyms
- Disgrace: to bring shame or dishonor upon.
- Defame: to damage the good reputation of someone through false statements.
- Vilify: to speak or write about someone in an abusive or disparaging way.
Related Idioms
To drag someone's name through the mud: to cause someone to be publicly disgraced.
- The tabloids dragged his name through the mud, infamising him without evidence. (They publicly disgraced him.)
To blacken someone's reputation: to ruin someone's good name.
- The lies blackened her reputation, effectively infamising her. (The lies brought her infamy.)