in bad odor

alternative in bad odour

1. idiomaticoftenRegarded with disapproval; in a situation of being disliked; shunned.

   [T]he public looks at them as just a bunch of CEOs — a group in bad odor.

   2002 July 22, Bill Saporito, “Wall Street's Verdict”, in Time, retrieved 27 Sep 2013

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   So in conversing with men, women, and children, I gradually found out that Tim Hibblethwaite was in bad odor, and that he held himself doggedly aloof from all.

   1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Surly Tim

   New Hampshire was in bad odor with the English government; but the farmers could endure that with equanimity.

   1898, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The History of the United States

   […] Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord, […]

   1900, Fergus Hume, “On Saturday Night”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 62

   For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza.

   1993 May 8, Russell Baker, “Observer: What's in a Naming?”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Sep 2013

   Synonyms: frowned upon, on the outs · Antonyms: in good odor