ill fame
Americannoun
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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 town on the Spanish side of the bay has redeemed Gibraltar from its ill fame as a place of entertainment.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
His ill fame increased in still greater proportion, especially when he assumed the airs of a sorcerer.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
People who did not live there believed it to be an exceedingly wicked place, and the farther one traveled from Ascalon, in any direction whatever, the faster this ill fame increased.
From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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