ill fame
noun
bad reputation, especially in sexual matters.
ill-famed
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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
Through the medium of the arch-Democratic and exceedingly militant New York World he learned that all was not well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he exposed Lobbyist John P Monroe's ill-famed "red house on R Street," where high officials were wined and duped, Monroe sued for $1,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
What strange places they came upon in this underground region below the ill-famed house!
From In the Days of Chivalry by Evelyn Everett-Green
