ill-famed
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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
Navy's rich, ill-famed Elk Hills oil reserves has raised the hair of Congress for the past fortnight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal.
From Time Magazine Archive
We ran inside of the ill-famed Goodwin Sands, and came to an anchor in the Downs off the low sandy beach of Deal.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
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