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
People who did not live there believed it to be an exceedingly wicked place, and the farther one traveled from Ascalon, in any direction whatever, the faster this ill fame increased.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
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)
It had neither bad name nor ill fame, and Mrs. Grose, most apparently, only desired to cling to me and to quake in silence.
From The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry
