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
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
Soon his menu featuring gef�llte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy's."
From Time Magazine Archive
The ill-famed Judge Jeffries said, his judicial crimes were perpetrated to maintain the majesty of the law.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
