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
All of them had made several escapes from Missouri's ill-famed Training School for Boys at Boonville and been recaptured.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the body of a soldier of Japan's veteran, ill-famed 18th Division, soldiers found a bit of Nipponese poesy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I may say that so far as we prisoners residing in the ill-famed avenue were concerned we had to depend upon water entirely for washing purposes—soap was an unheard-of luxury—while a towel was unknown.
From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles
