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

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

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 Newnham-Davis, Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel)

And there are those whom an ill fame does not frighten.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary