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"infamy" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often notoriety (9 letters).
Definitions
evil fame or public reputation
Word origin
From late Middle English infamie, from Old French infamie, from Latin īnfāmia (“infamy”), from īnfāmis (“infamous”), from in- (“not”) + fāma (“fame, renown”). Displaced native Old English unhlīsa (literally “bad fame”).
Used in a sentence
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
“All for a pig of a man who should have gone to the chair. It is an infamy that he did not.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Bad reputation”6 letters
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