in bad odor

Compare odour of sanctity.

• "So in conversing with men, women, and children, I gradually found out that Tim Hibblethwaite was in bad odor, and that he held himself doggedly aloof from all."
• "New Hampshire was in bad odor with the English government; but the farmers could endure that with equanimity."
• "[…] Mosk could not pay his rent and was already in bad odour with his landlord, […]"
• "For the political right, naturally eager to put the left in bad odor, the naming frenzy was a bonanza."
• "[T]he public looks at them as just a bunch of CEOs — a group in bad odor."

• frowned upon
• on the outs

• in good odor

• bad books