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Ill repute
noun
Bad reputation; notoriety.
Exact(55)
Debt is in ill repute.
They're houses of ill repute.
And running a house of ill repute.
Perhaps you meant a lady of ill repute?
One of them said, "Someone might think that you were a woman of ill repute".
The businesslike Mr Gilman insists that a house of ill repute is nothing of the kind.
Similar(5)
Most journalistic literature, however, deserves none of the ill-repute that is associated with its more polemical expressions.
"What is clear is that overall the trophy hunting must be carefully regulated, otherwise it casts the whole trophy hunting industry into ill-repute," she said.
Utility of ill-repute?
Protagoras' avowed agnosticism did not, then, provoke public outrage or even bring him into ill-repute, and it is worth considering why not.
One claimed a program in Mexico was shut down because the police thought it was a 'house of ill-repute'.
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