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notorious🔊

Of a person or entity: generally or widely known for something negative; infamous.

📑 Synonyms: ill-famed
💬 Quotations
This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man—a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name—you have reflected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up.

Of an act, situation, etc.: blameworthy in an obvious and offensive way; blatant, flagrant.

Generally or widely known; of common knowledge; famous or well-known.

(obsolete) Clear, evident, obvious.

(obsolete) Generally or widely knowable.

(obsolete) In a notable manner; as is commonly known.