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
The ensuing stream of confessions, self -denunciations and one heroic defense made the non-Communist world remember the tragic, psychopathic exhibitions at the ill-famed purge trials of 1937.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the medium of the arch-Democratic and exceedingly militant New York World he learned that all was not well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues.
From Time Magazine Archive
What his august master saw fit to mete out to him, however, was neither the one nor the other: he was stationed at Stuttgart as 'medicus' to an ill-famed regiment consisting largely of invalids.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
