What does ill-famed mean?

ill-famed

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Frequency: 3.57 in modern English

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"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."

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