ill fame
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There is, of course, a good reason for am-dram's ill fame.
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012
Each of them have already made unfathomable sums of money and known, for good and ill, fame at its most hardcore.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2010
Be steel deep-dyed, before ye look to see Ill joy, ill fame, from other wight, in me!
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
It had neither bad name nor ill fame, and Mrs. Grose, most apparently, only desired to cling to me and to quake in silence.
From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
Though reputed brave, his treachery has won him a permanent ill fame.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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