Notorious (Joan Jett album)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Having an exceedingly bad reputation
"A notorious gangster"
"The tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
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Etymology
First attested 1548, from , from , perfect passive participle of . Negative sense appeared in seventeenth century.
Adjective
notorious
- Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
Quotations
- 1920: "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." — The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1999: "The Hempshocks' sheep were notoriously the finest for miles around: shaggy-coated and intelligent (for sheep), with curling horns and sharp hooves." — Neil Gaiman, Stardust, pg. 30 (2001 Perennial edition)