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  • "A majority of those years have been spent serving in Garden Heights," the voice-over continues, "a neighborhood notorious for gangs and drug dealers."  (source)
    notorious = well known for something bad
  • One of the suspects called a notorious drug dealer to offer him a chance to buy some stolen watches.  (source)
    notorious = well known (for something bad)
  • ...but his job lasted only as long as his notoriety:  (source)
    notoriety = the state of being known for something bad
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  • After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step,  (source)
    notorious = well known for something bad
  • ...Neville's memory was notoriously poor.  (source)
    notoriously = widely known in a bad way
  • She'd been well-known at school, and it was great end-of-summer gossip, earning me a newfound notoriety that made me very uncomfortable.  (source)
    notoriety = fame for something bad
  • He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable to find any satisfactory cause of death.  (source)
    notorious = well known for something bad
  • The Union Leader was a notoriously conservative paper, The New York Times a liberal one.  (source)
  • These religious policies earned universal notoriety as the Taliban strived to restore the Middle Ages in a nation longing to join the twenty-first century.  (source)
    notoriety = fame for something bad
  • In the days that followed, ballad sellers began to cry out new and final verses to the notorious life of Hold-Your-Nose Billy and his partner, Cutwater.  (source)
    notorious = well known for something bad
  • who ... was notoriously selfish and cruel,  (source)
    notoriously = well known, in a bad way, for being
  • I think it's appalling that a public servant, paid by the city, would seek notoriety through tragedy.  (source)
    notoriety = fame for connection to something bad
  • The last king of the Shang Dynasty, he was a notorious tyrant in Chinese history.†  (source)
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