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Definition of Ill-famed
1. Adjective. Known widely and usually unfavorably. "The infamous Benedict Arnold"
Definition of Ill-famed
1. Adjective. Having a bad reputation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-famed
Literary usage of Ill-famed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From St. Francis to Dante: Translations from the Chronicle of the Franciscan by George Gordon Coulton (1907)
"Item, the priest of Appeville is ill-famed for drunkenness. Item, we found that
the priest of Martigny, ill-famed for incontinence, is non-resident and ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"... without interruption in one stretch through the ill-famed Melville Bay, ...
the ill-famed middle ice of Baffin's Bay is to them no moie impenetrable, ..."
3. Hector Berlioz; Selections from His Letters, and Aesthetic, Humorous, and by Hector Berlioz, William Foster Apthorp (1879)
"This one is ill-famed, that other one is famished. This one, at last I am speaking
of the theatre of the Folies-Nouvelles, is a coquettish little resort, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"... and, as the term goes, " improved 5" and out of it lead some of the smallest
and most ill famed streets, even of the modern capital. ..."
5. Proceedings of the General Council (1880)
"This once so ill-famed quarter has become one of the quietest and most orderly
parts of our ... It is haunted by the worst part of [his ill famed district. ..."
6. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the (1898)
"... finally going to sea on a privateer, was captured and kept in the ill- famed
Dartmoor prison. Roswell Farnham's father established himself in Haverhill, ..."
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