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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

His ill fame increased in still greater proportion, especially when he assumed the airs of a sorcerer.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles

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)

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