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Infamy (the noun) is also an adjective (infamous), referring to being remembered for something bad. The best-known use of the word came from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Here's a sentence: President Roosevelt called the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 "a day that will live in infamy." And it has-- many people still learn about it, and remember what a terrible event it was.

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