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
John Wilson Dillinger, 79, father of the 1930s' ill-famed John Dillinger; in Indianapolis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Theron Lamar Caudle, 64, ill-famed head of the Justice Department's tax division during the Truman Administration; of a heart attack; in Wadesboro, N.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
He cracked a parting joke, which restored the good humour and cheerfulness of the camp, and with my few parcels under my arm I left the ill-famed field.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles
