ill-famed

English

Adjective

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

1. Having a bad reputation.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     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.