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ill fame



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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

The town on the Spanish side of the bay has redeemed Gibraltar from its ill fame as a place of entertainment.

From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)

The last comers of all are delighters in wickedness for its own sake, and request their due ill fame.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

People who did not live there believed it to be an exceedingly wicked place, and the farther one traveled from Ascalon, in any direction whatever, the faster this ill fame increased.

From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)




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