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ill-repute

ill-repute is the alternative form of ill repute.

Meaning of ill repute

Noun

ill repute (uncountable)

  1. Bad reputation; notoriety.
    • He was held in ill repute, no one would trust him enough to do business with him.
  2. (euphemistic) Prostitution and the sex industry.
    • His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.1997, Aileen Schumacher, Engineering for Murder, page 69

Questions about ill-repute

What is ill-repute the alternative form of?
Ill-repute is the alternative form of ill repute.

Words near ill-repute in the dictionary

  1. ill-posed
  2. ill-prepared
  3. ill-proportioned
  4. ill-qualified
  5. ill-received
  6. ill-repute
  7. ill-scathe
  8. ill-scented
  9. ill-seen
  10. ill-sorted
  11. ill-spent

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