ill fame
Example Sentences
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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
Universally, however, the landlords showed some shrewdness, or even sagacity, in qualifying, according to the circumstances of the inquirer, the sort of credit which they allowed to the exaggerated ill fame of the roads.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
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 Mackay, Charles
It had neither bad name nor ill fame, and Mrs. Grose, most apparently, only desired to cling to me and to quake in silence.
From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
