The state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality.
1 Though reputed brave, his treachery has won him a permanent ill fame .
2 Even houses of ill fame found her gently and firmly looking for trade.
3 And there are those whom an ill fame does not frighten.
4 What kind of sheriff would marry a woman of ill fame ?
5 That wife of his sounds like a woman of ill fame .
6 The houses of ill fame were riotous with men let loose upon a holiday.
7 Secondly, that thus she might be safeguarded from ill fame .
8 She is the-well-theownerof a house of ill fame .
9 His ill fame increased in still greater proportion, especially when he assumed the airs of a sorcerer.
10 First, he engaged in occasional 'drinking bouts,' next in gaming; lastly, he frequented a house of ill fame .
11 Pollrooms, and gaming houses and resorts of ill fame subscribed regularly as a gracious service to their patrons.
12 Such conditions would naturally be ideal for the owner of a house of ill fame , or for a pandar.
13 Her destination was Baltimore where she asked a cab driver to take her to a house of ill fame .
14 One of the saddest features of police work is dealing with the social evil, with prostitutes and houses of ill fame .
15 The police were notified, and a week later he was found in a house of the type-soeuphemistically called-of" ill fame . "
16 In London the public houses of ill fame {507} were closed in 1546, in Paris in 1560.
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