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Meaning of notorious in English

notorious
adjective
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/nəʊˈtɔː.ri.əs/ /nəˈtɔː.ri.əs/ us
/noʊˈtɔːr.i.əs/
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famous for something bad:
one of Mexico's most notorious criminals
The company is notorious for paying its bills late.
Synonym
infamous
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known and recognized by many people
  • famousShe went from poor and anonymous to rich and famous.
  • well knownShe's a well-known artist.
  • renownedThe area is renowned for its beauty.
  • world-famousThey stayed in a world-famous hotel.
  • celebratedHe's a celebrated writer of children's stories.
  • legendaryHe once met the legendary singer, Eartha Kitt.
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(Definition of notorious from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

notorious | American Dictionary

notorious
adjective
us
/nəˈtɔr·i·əs, -ˈtoʊr-/
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famous for something immoral or bad:
The canal is notorious for its pollution.

notoriously

adverb us
/nəˈtɔr·i·əs·li, -ˈtoʊr-/
(Definition of notorious from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of notorious

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Shopkeepers too were notorious for the ' trading lies ' their businesses obliged them to tell.
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It is indeed the natural way and most notorious habit of men of science.
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The notorious phenomenon of structure dependence is a case in point.
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This is, of course, the notorious problem of induction.
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Could the small number of access routes have increased the efficiency of collecting the state's notorious importation tariffs?
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The contagiousness of laughter is better known, and is the basis for the notorious laugh tracks on television situation comedies.
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Both flies are notorious pests of tropical and subtropical fruits.
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In several experiments, we have examined some of the noncausal base-rate problems that are notorious for provoking philosophical dispute.
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Indeed, it has become a commonplace to assert that part of this project's failure can be put down to its notorious disregard for indigenous awareness.
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Attempts to specify the exact nature and scope of divine attributes are notorious for being the grounds of significant disagreement, and omniscience is no exception.
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But it is the culture of partisanship within the city has, for a century and more, made planning ' 'wars ' ' a notorious staple of democratic urbanism.
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Genetics is a prominent, even notorious, area of science in this respect.
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This brief minute or so from an opera notorious for so many other reasons is one of the crucial turning points in operatic history.
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This is further demonstrated in relation to the lives of victims, by the neglect of notorious victims of injustice and wrongful conviction.
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The problems of estimating resource usage in lazy functional languages, and the pitfalls of naively transferring intuitions developed in imperative programming are notorious.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
臭名昭著的，聲名狼藉的…
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臭名昭著的，声名狼藉的…
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notorio, notorio/ria [masculine-feminine, singular]…
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notório, famoso, de má fama…
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悪名高い, 悪名高（あくめいたか）い…
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adı kötüye çıkmış, kötü ünlü/namlı, kötü şöhretli…
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tristement célèbre, notoire…
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notorisk, beryktet…
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пользующийся дурной славой, печально известный…
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ซึ่งมีชื่อเสียงในทางที่ไม่ดี…
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tai tiếng…
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notoryczny, cieszący się złą sławą, osławiony…
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famigerato, infame, tristemente famoso…
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