Usually means: Bad reputation; widely disrespected behavior.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill repute: Merriam-Webster
  2. ill repute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ill-repute, ill repute: Wordnik
  4. ill-repute, ill repute: Wiktionary
  5. Ill Repute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. ill repute: FreeDictionary.org
  7. ill repute: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill-repute, ill repute: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ill repute: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ill repute)

▸ noun:  Bad reputation; notoriety.
▸ noun:  (euphemistic) Prostitution and the sex industry.

Similar:
ill-repute, ill fame, ill name, disrepute, bad name, infamy, disreputation, opprobrium, ruination, discredit, more...

Opposite:
good reputation, positive image, respectability

Phrases:
house of ill repute, houses of ill repute, woman of ill repute, more...

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Similar:
ill-repute, ill fame, ill name, disrepute, bad name, infamy, disreputation, opprobrium, ruination, discredit, more...

Opposite:
good reputation, positive image, respectability

Phrases:
house of ill repute, houses of ill repute, woman of ill repute, more...



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