INFAMY

[noun] [U] [formal]Property developers earned their infamy in the years when the country felt like a huge building site.(formal) An infamy is a bad and shocking act or event.For those who had fought and the relatives of those who had died in the war, the final infamy was the pardoning of the draft-dodgers.The programme was a tough criticism of the hidden infamies of factory farming, with animals bred for minimum life and maximum profit.