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ill-famed

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adj.1.having an exceedingly bad reputation.
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Adj.1.ill-famed - known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
infamous, notorious
disreputable - lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance


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Where everything maimed, ill-famed, lustful, untrustful, over-mellow, sickly-yellow and seditious, festereth pernicious:--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
I do not know why I had an inkling that it would appeal to Strickland's sense of humour to bring a furious stockbroker over to Paris on a fool's errand to an ill-famed house in a mean street.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
There were moments, indeed, at night, when, lying sleepless in his own delicately scented chamber, or in the sordid room of the little ill-famed tavern near the docks which, under an assumed name and in disguise, it was his habit to frequent, he would think of the ruin he had brought upon his soul with a pity that was all the more poignant because it was purely selfish.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar View in context
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