ill-famed
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
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
At year's end farm prices had soared to 15% above "parity," and the ill-famed farm lobby, with nothing much remaining to fight for, was left brooding over new formulas for a bigger and better "parity."
From Time Magazine Archive
Infámous, having a bad name, ill-famed: a Latinism.
From Milton's Comus by Bell, William
