ill fame

American  

noun

1. bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.

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Other Word Forms

• ill-famed
  adjective

Example Sentences

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ill fame

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 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