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

Be steel deep-dyed, before ye look to see Ill joy, ill fame, from other wight, in me!

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

And there are those whom an ill fame does not frighten.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary

Though reputed brave, his treachery has won him a permanent ill fame.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir