ill-famed
- a word derived from ill fame.
Example Sentences
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“Who wants to accept this year’s prize from a reduced, badly wounded and ill-famed group?” he asked.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2018
On July 22 two Iraqi prisons came under attack and around 500 men, including some top militants leaders, escaped from ill-famed Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons...
From Time • Aug. 6, 2013
John Wilson Dillinger, 79, father of the 1930s' ill-famed John Dillinger; in Indianapolis.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a New Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ill-famed Judge Jeffries said, his judicial crimes were perpetrated to maintain the majesty of the law.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
