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
The last comers of all are delighters in wickedness for its own sake, and request their due ill fame.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Be steel deep-dyed, before ye look to see Ill joy, ill fame, from other wight, in me!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
Secondly, that thus she might be safeguarded from ill fame.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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