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 Thomas De Quincey
Be steel deep-dyed, before ye look to see Ill joy, ill fame, from other wight, in me!
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
Secondly, that thus she might be safeguarded from ill fame.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
