infamita

plural infamitas

1. countableuncountableA most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general.

   Don Croce sells information to the government and to me that is an infamita.

   1984, Mario Puzo, The Sicilian, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236

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   I don’t want any [drugs] near schools, I don’t want any of it sold to children. That is an infamita.

   1968, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, page 386

   And why, if he had betrayed his own, did he not turn to his enemies for protection, as all traitors do? I imagined he must have committed one of those unforgivable Sicilian crimes, an infamità so serious that everybody must condemn him, his family, his allies as well as his enemies; one of those mysterious violations of the unwritten code to punish which rivalries, feuds, and gang wars were temporarily suspended; […]

   1977, Luigi Giorgio Barzini, O America, When You and I Were Young, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 244

   Philip teaches the children the Sicilian concept of omerta or silence and warns them not to commit infamita, or the telling of family secrets.

   2002, Jane Kathleen Curry, John Guare: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing, →ISBN, pages 34–5