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
Though reputed brave, his treachery has won him a permanent ill fame.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 Charles Mackay
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 Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
