Meanings
comparative more ill-famed · superlative most ill-famed
- 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.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the TideSynonyms: infamous, nefarious, nithing, disreputable, infamous, nefarious, niddering, nidering
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving a bad reputation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveknown widely and usually unfavorably
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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