ill repute
noun1
Bad reputation; notoriety.
- He was held in ill repute, no one would trust him enough to do business with him.
2
Euphemistic Prostitution and the sex industry.
- His list of sexual contacts was quite long, and included ladies from some of the ritzier establishments of ill repute across the border.1997, Aileen Schumacher, Engineering for Murder, page 69:
- Derived terms
- house of ill repute, lady of ill repute, woman of ill repute