Famous for a bad quality or action.
they got to be somewhat ill-famed for drunkenness
Example sentencesExamples
- After the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 the Bloody Assizes were held in Dorchester with the ill famed Judge Jeffery's presiding.
- The West Riding of Yorkshire in the late eighteenth century was ill-famed for its robust and independent plebeian culture.
- What on earth was he doing, walking unaccompanied to the most ill-famed area of the town?
- Life has not improved for the millions of rural poor still caught up in the struggle between the guerrilla, the ill-famed army and the murderous paramilitary groups.
- The Vatican signed its ill-famed concordat with Hitler in 1933 to prevent him from grabbing church property and meddling in church affairs.
- Oregon has the ill-famed distinction of ranking among the states with the highest jobless levels in the country.
Synonyms
notorious, disreputable, of ill-repute