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ill-famed

ill-famed adjective: having a bad reputation.

Adjective

ill-famed (comparative more ill-famed, superlative most ill-famed)

  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.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Synonyms of ill-famed

Forms of ill-famed

comparativemore ill-famed
superlativemost ill-famed

Questions about ill-famed

What does ill-famed mean?
Ill-famed means having a bad reputation.
What part of speech is ill-famed?
Ill-famed is an adjective.

Words near ill-famed in the dictionary

  1. ill-doing
  2. ill-doings
  3. ill-ease
  4. ill-effect
  5. ill-equipped
  6. ill-famed
  7. ill-fated
  8. ill-fatedly
  9. ill-fatedness
  10. ill-favored
  11. ill-favoured

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