Ill-famed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a bad reputation.

    "It seems she was not ordinarily ill-famed, as men use the word. She was maybe sixty years in age, small and trig, with her grey hair folded neatly under her mutch. But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget."

Adjective
  1. 1
    known widely and usually unfavorably wordnet

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infamousnotorious

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"It seems she was not ordinarily ill-famed, as men use the word. She was maybe sixty years in age, small and trig, with her grey hair folded neatly under her mutch. But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget."

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