ill repute

He worried that “if left alone it will bring us all into ill repute.”

Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.

Valerie Forsyth, editor of Scotland's History, told BBC Scotland that although Mrs Noyce ran what was considered a house of ill repute she tried to remain respectable.

Allen's new book is published by Skyhorse, which has a reputation for giving a platform to writers of ill repute.

Company members lived in what’s commonly believed to be a former house of ill repute, sharing the building with the painter Stephen Quiller’s gallery in the early 1970s.