Sample Sentences for
notorious
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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
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    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)
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    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)
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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
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    who ... was notoriously selfish and cruel,  (source)
    notoriously = well known, in a bad way, for being
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    ...but his job lasted only as long as his notoriety:  (source)
    notoriety = the state of being known for something bad
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    Nwayieke lived four compounds away, and she was notorious for her late cooking.†  (source)
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    ...Neville's memory was notoriously poor.  (source)
    notoriously = widely known in a bad way
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    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
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    Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read.†  (source)
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    The Union Leader was a notoriously conservative paper, The New York Times a liberal one.  (source)
    notoriously = well known for something bad
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    Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.  (source)
    notoriety = the state of being known for something bad
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    Vikings were notorious for appropriating from other cultures†  (source)
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