A company like Tele-Communications has a horrible reputation for service.

Each of his schemes to make money falls through and he ends up building a horrible reputation for himself, all the while tarnishing his father's name.

- Why, how come I have such a horrible reputation?

Isabella of France had a horrible reputation.

But, due to the horrible reputation of the islanders as cannibals, he was protected by an armed escort to bring the skins to his vessel.

"They have an absolutely horrible reputation, but I don't think it's deserved," she said, though she allows that 20 years ago, many nursing homes were indeed bad.

STEVE: But yet at the same time they would love to do something about their horrible reputation from a security standpoint.

The horrible reputation that, in particular, Internet Explorer 6 suffered was in no small part a contribution to its demise.