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Ill-famed   /ɪl-feɪmd/   Listen
Ill-famed

adjective
1.
Known widely and usually unfavorably.  Synonyms: infamous, notorious.  "The tenderloin district was notorious for vice" , "The infamous Benedict Arnold"






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"Ill-famed" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon the soil that feeds man! You at least shall live no more to be a fell bane to men who eat the fruit of the all-nourishing earth, and who will bring hither perfect hecatombs. Against cruel death neither Typhoeus shall avail you nor ill-famed Chimera, but here shall the Earth and shining ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod



Words linked to "Ill-famed" :   disreputable, infamous



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