The Collaborative International Dictionary
ill-famed \ill-famed\ adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation.
Syn: infamous, notorious.
Wiktionary
a. Having a bad reputation
WordNet
Usage examples of "ill-famed".
And as he turned the corner into Salem Yard he saw something glitter, he saw something flash, and he knew in that instant that it was the famous Negrohead opal, which he had seen that one time before when his lady cousin occasioned the assistance of the Metropolitan Police to rescue the girl Bessie Lovejoy, then in process of being purchased for the ill-famed Khowadja of Al-Khebur by the ineffably evil Motilal Smith.
Today the sixteen martyrs were interred in state in the collonaded Temple of Honor beside the ill-famed beer hall.
There were very few female students to be seen, and there were legends still circulated about the beautiful Héloïse, who had cost her lover the cutting off of his pudenda, even if it was one thing to be a student, hence by definition ill-famed and yet tolerated, and another to be a professor, like the great and unhappy Abélard.