Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of in bad odor English)
Usage examples of "in bad odour".
Accordingly the Archdeacon, in spite of the extreme austerity of his life, was in bad odour with all good Christians, and there was not a devout nose among them but could smell the magician.
Is it not a fact that a suggestion was made -- by you -- that the company was in danger of being in bad odour because of evidence to be given at this Inquiry?
I had many consultations with Mr Havelock and Dr Stalletti, who was also in bad odour with the authorities, and it was at one of these conferences that Dr Stalletti put forward his theory - namely, that supposing he had a child in his care of sufficiently tender age, he could destroy its identity, not by any act of cruelty, but by suggestion or by some kind of hypnotism.