ill-famed
Example Sentences
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“Who wants to accept this year’s prize from a reduced, badly wounded and ill-famed group?” he asked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2018
On July 22 two Iraqi prisons came under attack and around 500 men, including some top militants leaders, escaped from ill-famed Abu Ghraib and Taji prisons...
From Time ● Aug. 6, 2013
At year's end farm prices had soared to 15% above "parity," and the ill-famed farm lobby, with nothing much remaining to fight for, was left brooding over new formulas for a bigger and better "parity."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a New Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently some of our crew began to whisper mysteriously together, and the word was passed from one to another, that this was no other than the ill-famed island of Angatan.
From The Island Home by Dalziel
