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
All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he proceeded with his sacred duly bravely, and felt touched not a little on perceiving how fervently these ill-famed outlaws joined in the prayer he offered up by the grave.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
