Synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, loss of face, shamefacedness, embarrassment, indignity, abashment, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction, disgrace, dishonour, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, contempt, pity, misfortune, crying shame, cause for regret, source of regret, sad thing, unfortunate thing, discredit to, disgrace to, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, slur on, reproach to, bad reflection on, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, humiliate, mortify, make someone feel ashamed, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up
Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence
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Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... gaping hole we all keep falling into as we try to stride into an imagined Shangri-la of solitary self-reliance. The cross is the only footbridge that can get us across that chasm into the true Promised Land. Golgotha was a place of infamy. And this was when “infamy” was not equated with celebrity. Golgotha was the termination zone for the wickedest and the worst, as judged by Roman law and society. When Jesus was crucified at Golgotha he was one of three criminals. On either side of him were two thieves ...
2. Skull Hill
John 12:20-36
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Leonard Sweet
... being “lifted up” on the cross. Jesus was lifted up on the cross as a criminal, but he was lifted up by the power of God’s love as the savior of the world. Golgotha, Aramaic for “The Skull,” was a place of infamy. And this was when "infamy" was not equated with celebrity. Golgotha was a small hill just outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem near a well-traveled highway. Everyone equated the name Golgotha with the termination zone for the wickedest and the worst, as judged by Roman law and society ...
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Thomas Long
... , and on it goes. We have, then, seven moves by Pilate, seven scenes, seven glimpses of a nervous and troubled politician, seven shifting moods, seven occasions for Pilate to speak his mind and to reveal his soul before he shuffles off the canvas of history into infamy -- in sum, we find here the seven last words of Pilate. But what does this seven-fold shuttling mean? What is disclosed as we track this turmoil and overhear the seven last words of Pilate? To begin with, we discover that the roles have been ...
4. A Patriot · Dysmas
Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... the Pharisees to appeal desperately to Caesar for help. No less a general than the renowned Pompey responded to the appeal and, aided by traitors within Jerusalem's gates, he took control of the city without drawing a sword. It was a day to live in infamy. For not only did it reduce Israel's borders to the dimensions of a province, it likewise set up a succession of puppet rulers who delighted in harassing the people. Consequently, it was only a short time until guerrilla bands, fired with a passion to ...
5. Christ the King
Jeremiah 23:1-8
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George Paul Mocko
... not been fulfilled. They have not become the people of God sent to all God's people on earth. This failure, Jeremiah sees, has been primarily a failure of leadership. There was King Manasseh, before Jeremiah's time, but his memory and legacy lived in infamy - an overt and avowed pagan who put Assyrian flags in the temple, who set up pagan shrines in every sizable town. On the payroll there were what were called priests and priestesses of love, but openly they were nothing other than prostitutes and their ...
6. Proper 13
Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 49:1-20, Ecclesiastes 2:17-26, 2 Kings 13:10-25, Colossians 3:1-17
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George Bass
... the devil under his foot. There is little doubt, despite the uncertainties of tradition and conjecture, that Bartholomew, who may also be known as Nathanael, died a martyr, as did all of the disciples, except John. Actually, St. Bartholomew's day is a day of infamy in the church, because the terrible slaughter of the Hugenots began in France on St. Bartholomew's Eve, in 1572, and continued into the middle of September; more than 50,000 people were killed in that period of time. Pope Gregory XIII had a medal ...
7. The Lamb of God
John 1:29-34
Sermon
... end search." Despite the report that Joseph Mengele’s body had been found and exhumed from a grave in Brazil, the "Nazi hunters" were not convinced by the evidence. They would continue their search for the "Angel of Death" of Nazi concentration camp infamy until they had absolute proof that the corpse was Mengele’s. The second article’s headline read: Behind the scenes/Bavarian town tries to shake stigma of the "Angel of Death." The town of Mengele-Gunzberg was named after his grandfather, whose farm ...
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I begin with a word about two American cities, cities of fame and sometimes of infamy. The first is in the east, almost as far as the Atlantic Ocean. It is this nation's capital, workplace of the president and of senators and representatives and of thousands of bureaucrats. It is a place where decisions handed down and deals hammered out affect millions of lives. It ...
Sermon
Thomas A. Pilgrim
... of these visitors from out of town had been captivated by Jesus back up there in Galilee. They had heard him, and had witnessed the things he did. So, now here he is, on what would become, not a day of glory but merely the prelude to a day of infamy. (Mark 11:1-10) The Master has come - to face Jerusalem. And, his facing Jerusalem always brings about a time of decision, for that is what Palm Sunday means: a time of decision. I It was a time of decision for Jesus. It was a moment of truth for the ...
10. Proper 10 & Pentecost 8
Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 65:1-13, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Exodus 2:11-25, Matthew 13:1-23
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... Hebrews both have a stake. It relates the incident when Moses, now a grown man, killed an Egyptian who was mistreating one of the Hebrews. He thought he had committed the deed in secret, but discovered, when he reproved a Hebrew for mistreating another Jew, that his infamy was known by the Hebrews and would soon be common knowledge and reach the ears of Pharaoh. This happened and he fled for his life to Midian, where he was kind to the daughters of Reuel/Jethro, a priest, who invited him to have dinner with ...
11. Mugwumps
Luke 6:1-11
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... they find the stockholders meetings of Tradition and Comfort particularly attractive. Like anything with the capacity for swift, covert movement, it’s much easier to determine where they have been than to know where they are now. A classic case in their Hall of Infamy is datelined 30 A.D. This is by no means their first case or their earliest, but it’s one which is well documented. It was a Sabbath Day ... weatherwise a perfect one. The services were over. Folks were resting and relaxing with an air ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... weakness. But we do know that, as a people, as a nation, we have lived by the power of prayer - Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, Lincoln confessing that when his knees shook, he knelt on them. Remember the day after the day of infamy, December 8, 1941, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt confronted the Joint Session of Congress and the entire nation over the air? Our Navy was at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Our handful of troops, scattered around the world, were ready for almost immediate defeat ...
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... and sent out all over the Empire, Luther probably never would have gotten the attention that he did. ANTAGONIST: Well, he should have anticipated that might happen. PROTAGONIST: Who knows? Perhaps he did. LECTOR: Dear Karl - So even you have heard of my clamoring after infamy. Believe me, I had no idea they would publish my 95 theses and circulate them. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. After all, scholars have a way of talking an argument to death. In the hands of ordinary people, especially people ...
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Alton F. Wedel
... himself, whose names are listed by the Chronicler (1 Chronicles 3:1-8), and others who remain unlisted and are uncounted and unnamed, offspring simply summarized as "sons of concubines." His experience in raising them had been anything but thrilling, and except for infamy, not one of them amounted to a cat scratch in the alleys of Jerusalem. His first-born, Amnon, incestuously raped his own half-sister Tamar and was slain in vengeance by half-brother, Absalom. It was Absalom, the handsome prince with his ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... old friend and colleague. But one person who came was shunned and ignored by virtually everyone there. Nobody would look at him much less speak to him. That person was former president Richard Nixon. Not long before, he had gone through the shame and infamy of Watergate. He was back in Washington for the first time since his resignation from the presidency. Then a very special thing happened, perhaps the only thing that could have made a difference and broken the ice. President Jimmy Carter, who was in the ...
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David E. Leininger
... This whole thing about being called to the ministry must be a horrible mistake. LOSER! Ever feel that way about what YOU do? Loser stories are all over the pages of history. The classic is that of Roy Riggles, a name that lives forever in sports infamy. On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played UCLA in the Rose Bowl. In that game, Roy Riggles recovered a fumble for California. Somehow, he became confused and started running...65 yards in the wrong direction. One of his teammates, Benny Lom, ran him down ...
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David E. Leininger
December 7th - Pearl Harbor Day - the "date which will live in infamy," according to President Roosevelt. A Date with Destiny. December 7, 1941 was, for what is called "the Greatest Generation," the day that changed their world, just as September 11th is the day that changed the world for the generation of today. "Where were you when you heard about September 11th?" ...
18. Walk In Love
Ephesians 4:1-16
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King Duncan
... or physically attacks his opponent or makes others miserable for days on end because of a minor slight. Such anger is the product of a deep sense of low self esteem. Such persons make the headlines on a regular basis. One of those whose name lives in infamy was raised by a very dominant mother, who showed him no affection, love, or discipline. His friends at school had little to do with him, and at thirteen, his school psychologist said he didn't know what it meant to be loved. The girls teased him, and ...
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King Duncan
... in the portrayal of our Lord's last supper with them, da Vinci had a terrible argument with a fellow artist. He determined to paint his fellow artist's face into the portrait as that of Judas Iscariot, and thus take revenge by handing down the man in infamy and scorn to succeeding generations. Thus the face of Judas was one of the first he finished, and everyone could easily recognize the face of the painter with whom he had quarreled. However, when he came to paint the face of Christ he couldn't make any ...
20. Judas
Luke 22:1-6
Sermon
King Duncan
... moment he decided to betray his country. His name? Benedict Arnold. In the mind of every American the name of Benedict Arnold stands for betrayal.(1) There is a more famous traitor in human history, however, than Benedict Arnold. There is one whose name is shrouded in infamy in nearly every tongue on earth. He did not betray a country, nor an army, nor even a town. He did something far worse. He betrayed a friend. Dante in his vision of hell surveys those whose deeds are the vilest and who occupy the most ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... and had his soldiers slay all of the boys under two years of age in Bethlehem and the region thereabout. What a tragic intrusion into this beautiful story of Christ's birth. All brought about by this fourth king whose name shall forever live in infamy ” Herod. History books call him, strangely enough, Herod the Great. Herod came from a powerful family. His father and grandfather were both public administrators who had widened their base of authority. Thus in the year 37 BC Herod the Great was made king of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
This is the third Sunday in November--a day that will live in infamy for diehard football fans. The year was 1968. The exact date was November 17. Little did people know as they made their way home from church and prepared for an afternoon of professional football on television that this would be a day that would plunge a large portion of our ...
23. Day Of Decision
Mark 14:10-26, 43-52
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King Duncan
... me the name of the son you loved so, That I may share, your grief and your woe!" She lifted her eyes, looking straight at the other, "He was Judas Iscariot, and I am his Mother." (1) Judas. Judas Iscariot. Is there a name more stained with infamy than his? In the Divine Comedy, Dante places Judas in the deepest chasm of hell, where Satan munches on him as a steady diet. Each Good Friday in Mexico, the people ignite firecrackers that sizzle and pop until the burning fuse reaches a hideous, powder-stuffed ...
24. Morning Has Broken
Genesis 1:1-2:3
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Curtis Lewis
... the MurrahFederalBuilding in Oklahoma City and the chaos which followed. Images of Paducah and Columbine will be forever etched in the soul of America. September 11, 2001, is a date that, to use the words of Franklin Roosevelt, will "live in infamy." The pictures of airplanes deliberately crashing into the WorldTradeCenter and the Pentagon will be etched upon the psyche of the United States for years to come. When someone speaks of anthrax, small pox, e. coli, and nuclear warheads, immediately the picture ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... person who came was shunned and ignored by virtually everyone there. Nobody would talk to him, nobody would look at him, no one would speak to him. That person was former president Richard Nixon. Not long before, he had gone through the shame and infamy of Watergate. He was back in Washington for the first time since his resignation from the presidency. People were avoiding him like the plague. Then, a very special thing happened, perhaps the only thing that could have made a difference and broken the ice ...
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