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Loss of or damage to one's reputation
He said they called him a bad name.
He wasn't the one who gave me a bad name.
Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius, but it is probable that he has been judged too harshly.
She showed most favour to her reactionary generals and statesmen, to the Church and religious orders, and was constantly the tool of corrupt and profligate courtiers and favourites who gave her court a deservedly bad name.
besetting sins of the academy which give the whole of our vocation a bad name with the wider public.