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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
  • That's what he wants-publicity-notoriety.   (source)
    notoriety = fame for something bad
  • Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned... the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned.   (source)
    notoriety = state of being known for something bad
  • her notorious mouth†   (source)
  • "How could a notorious terrorist be hiding in Pakistan and remain undetected for so many years?" he asked.†   (source)
  • a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.†   (source)
  • Though the Japanese press covered the European theater accurately, it was notorious for distorting the news of the Pacific war, sometimes absurdly.†   (source)
  • He was also able to forgive, or overlook, the shortcomings of his literary heroes: Jack London was a notorious drunk; Tolstoy, despite his famous advocacy of celibacy, had been an enthusiastic sexual adventurer as young man and went on to father at least thirteen children, some of whom were conceived at the same time the censorious count was thundering in print against the evils of sex.†   (source)
  • Am I still that notorious, or that paranoid?†   (source)
  • The last king of the Shang Dynasty, he was a notorious tyrant in Chinese history.†   (source)
  • But what of that notorious misanthrope of a chef?†   (source)
  • The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.†   (source)
  • Some cities allowed exotic operations-for new pretties only-but the authorities here were notoriously conservative.†   (source)
  • "Tree work" is notoriously demanding and dangerous.†   (source)
  • Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read.†   (source)
  • Notoriously fidgety, Sticky signaled the answers by tugging his ear or tapping his temple — motions he disguised with head scratches, collar-straightening, and spectacle-polishing — and Constance sat in the back row, where none of the other students would notice her watching him.†   (source)
  • Seiler had learned from the bailiffs, who were notorious for prying and telling tales, that the jurors were evenly split.†   (source)
  • That was expected by Adarlan's most notorious assassin.†   (source)
  • My grandmother once told me a story about a notorious hunter of wild pigs who used magic to transform himself into a wild boar.†   (source)
  • NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL KNOWN AS DAY ARRESTED, TO BE SENTENCED TODAY OUTSIDE BATALLA HALL DANGEROUS MENACE TO SOCIETY FINALLY CAUGHT TEEN RENEGADE KNOWN AS DAY CLAIMS TO WORK ALONE, NO AFFILIATION WITH THE PATRIOTS I stare at my face on the JumboTrons.†   (source)
  • Eventually, I see them all—you can't escape the damn things; Hester's rock videos are notorious.†   (source)
  • And now I'm going to enter this nerd school, not as a fellow nerd, but as a feared and notorious outlaw?"†   (source)
  • Nwayieke lived four compounds away, and she was notorious for her late cooking.†   (source)
  • In a region somewhere between the Everlasting Forest and Outer wilderbeastia, remarkable only for its desolation, Wonderlanders who not long before had been law-abiding, family-loving folk slaved away in Redd's most notorious labor camp, Blaxik.†   (source)
  • Air is notoriously uncooperative when it comes to giant, gaping holes in your EVA suit.†   (source)
  • They never did get that recording contract, but they did get to meet Sean Puffy Combs and Biggie Smalls, also known asThe Notorious B.I.G. A friend of theirs, the R and B singer Faith Evans, married Biggie Smalls, and occasionally they were invited to have dinner with them when the couple lived in New Jersey.†   (source)
  • And if Miss Avocet is indeed being held by wights, who are notoriously adept at leapfrogging, then it's extremely likely that the place she and the other ymbrynes are being taken is somewhere in the past.†   (source)
  • The brick oven had been heated for two nights in a row, and the whole family had gone without sugar since Sunday to make sure that the minister's notorious sweet tooth would be satisfied.†   (source)
  • For several months he had been the butt of various jokes played by the attendants and the miscellaneous loafers who hung around the station, despite his warnings and his notorious short temper.†   (source)
  • The Tyroshi were notorious for their avarice, and Ser Rodrik had argued for hiring a fishing sloop out of the Three Sisters, but Catelyn had insisted on the galley.†   (source)
  • It's also one notoriously ignored by the staff.†   (source)
  • PUTNAM, pointing at the whimpering Betty : That is a notorious sign of witchcraft afoot, Goody Nurse, a prodigious sign!†   (source)
  • The researchers chose black subjects because they, like many whites at the time, believed black people were "a notoriously syphilis-soaked race."†   (source)
  • Anyway, it usually disintegrates monsters on contact, but big powerful ones have notoriously tough hides.†   (source)
  • Since 'Jew' to antisemite mind is not the same as true Russian—Russia is notorious of this fact.†   (source)
  • he's notorious for saying no to everything.†   (source)
  • Mr. Klaus was also notorious for hiding in the green gloom of the hallways and waiting until some unlucky person stepped out of the door of his or her apartment (or into the main entrance of the Blixen Arms or down into the basement laundry room) and then pouncing on the person's ankles, biting and scratching and growling—and sometimes (weirdly enough) purring.†   (source)
  • But the general was a notorious nonsmoker, and Exner had not dared to ask permission.†   (source)
  • SCORPIUS: And yes, logic would dictate I should be pursuing Polly—or allowing her to pursue me—she's a notorious beauty, after all—but a Rose is a Rose.†   (source)
  • Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate,†   (source)
  • I feverishly tried to get the local police to find and arrest a notoriously vicious gangster named Blackie,†   (source)
  • Notorious Hotel Sold Following Murder of Underworld Figure.†   (source)
  • The facility was notoriously expensive,†   (source)
  • SEALs are pretty notorious for getting into bar scrapes, and I was no exception.†   (source)
  • It's one of Mobutu's most notorious dungeons, and we're all aware Anatole could end up there, any day.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed both fame and notoriety for a brief time.†   (source)
  • Burnham knew how to deal with Chicago's notoriously flimsy soil, but Jackson Park surprised even him.†   (source)
  • Much of the novel's notoriety, actually; beyond the fact that it has any pederasty, lies in its triple-X imitators.†   (source)
  • This was the notorious women's extermination camp whose name we had heard even in Haarlem.†   (source)
  • Since the UMWA was notorious for lacking strike funds, a lot of families were facing a potentially desperate situation.†   (source)
  • This is the kind of seemingly precise question that is in fact very profound, and that pieces of software, such as myself, are notoriously clumsy at.†   (source)
  • For decades, L.A. was notorious for restrictive covenants — where some areas were off limits to "undesirables."†   (source)
  • A notorious robber band once lived there.†   (source)
  • Lejkin, notorious for his industry in hunting people down and...†   (source)
  • While I enjoyed the notoriety, a cold anxiety was slowly growing in my gut.†   (source)
  • ...the notorious L.A. gangs are selling drugs outside twelve-step programs,†   (source)
  • Despite the notoriety Tobias now has among the Dauntless, and my new title as That Girl Who Stabbed Eric, we are not the real focus of everyone's attention.†   (source)
  • The specter was so notorious that Dr. Urbino realized how much it threatened the harmony of his home, and as soon as he detected it he hastened to tell his wife: "Don't worry, my love, it was my fault.†   (source)
  • Lasguns would knock them down, but lasguns were expensive and notoriously cranky of maintenance—and there was always the peril of explosive pyrotechnics if the laser beam intersected a hot shield.†   (source)
  • Pit bulls are known for their aggression, and they were especially notorious during this time in South Florida.†   (source)
  • So one Saturday Eric and a few of his classmates took a bus into the nearest city and visited a notorious whorehouse.†   (source)
  • At the notorious torture chamber of La Cuarenta (La 40), it was just a matter of time before those who were captured gave out the names of other members.†   (source)
  • Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies.†   (source)
  • Sometime that evening, after they had given up the battle with Arholma's notorious mosquitoes and moved down to the cabin, and after quite a few shots of aquavit, the conversation turned to friendly banter about ethics in the corporate world.†   (source)
  • Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another-and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast-the question remains: should I?†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, the government introduced the notorious Suppression of Communism Act and the ANC called an emergency conference in Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • In the middle stood the notorious Dr. Mengele...†   (source)
  • Secluded five miles up a rutted dirt track, the played-out mine was a notorious party spot.†   (source)
  • Their eggs are the size of a man's head, their hatchlings notoriously bloodthirsty.†   (source)
  • She's notoriously evil.†   (source)
  • The men were jailed in one of Central Africa's most notorious prisons:†   (source)
  • A mill notorious in the district for its ancient, unsanitary buildings, its poor management, its bad treatment of its hands.†   (source)
  • But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York's police force is accounted for.†   (source)
  • The girl was in fact notorious for her hustles of new prisoners, so Annette felt burned, and her caution was outsize.†   (source)
  • Greer was notoriously tight with a buck.†   (source)
  • Augustus was notorious all over Texas for the strength of his voice.†   (source)
  • This was a nun who'd been notorious for the terror she spread among the children, fifth-graders or sixth-graders, beatings, vituperations, keep them after school, send them out to clap erasers in a rainstorm.†   (source)
  • ...he wanted Pakistan to be renowned for a sizzling economy, not notorious for barbaric rapes.†   (source)
  • She'd be cut off without a cent. If you weren't slapped in leg irons and hanged in Newgate first," I say, invoking the name of London's most notorious prison.†   (source)
  • DIA is notoriously tight-lipped about its people and what they do.†   (source)
  • I was notorious in the family for loving food, and if any food was missing they would always blame me first.†   (source)
  • "The fuel gages on these old aircraft are notoriously unreliable," Brigadier General Bhangoo, one of Pakistan's most experienced high-altitude helicopter pilots, said, tapping it.†   (source)
  • James Dailey, an Immigration and Naturalization Service intelligence agent, described the area as "the first— or second-most notorious staging site for aliens in the world."†   (source)
  • He was sitting comfortably in the notorious wine house; he was surrounded by women who seemed to enjoy him and who laughed out loud.†   (source)
  • Mike Strank, an immensely popular sergeant who had some of the élan, if not the notoriety, of John Basilone, had his own colorful way of expressing brotherhood.†   (source)
  • The cat was a notorious pillow hog.†   (source)
  • I remembered the blonde's name—it was Lindsay, a notorious wet.†   (source)
  • By disaster standards, the quake was nothing much unless you had spent the past five weeks tracking down the country's most notorious killer.†   (source)
  • Soon his terrible need became notorious.†   (source)
  • In front of me, on the rising hill, barely visible through the blanket of fog, stood the dilapidated remains of Gatlin's oldest and most notorious plantation house, Ravenwood Manor.†   (source)
  • I didn't know what to think about our General anymore; the man we knew and admired seemed unrelated to the notorious and now hunted rebel who led the failed coup.†   (source)
  • Kim's mom was notoriously overprotective.†   (source)
  • Sistrunk was riding a wave of notoriety.†   (source)
  • Ancillaries were notorious for their expressionless faces.†   (source)
  • Also listed was Dorcas Griffith, who ran a notorious waterfront grog shop and was known to be John Hancock's "discarded" mistress.†   (source)
  • Homemade boomers were notoriously unstable.†   (source)
  • The father was David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, but once part of the notorious, unspoken-of Medusa, twice the legend that was Jason Bourne-assassin.†   (source)
  • Still, I wondered that she had come to me for shelter, for my house and the Hadfields' and the Sydells' were notorious now as the Plague cottages.†   (source)
  • And in the confusion, Silvio Arroyo Pedros, a retired Spanish matador ..., and a devotee of Havana's most notorious fleshpots, broke his clavicle dancing with the widow Doña Victoria del Paso.†   (source)
  • But, to be fair, perhaps Faces Sunward had been in hibernation when Fire World became notorious.†   (source)
  • No one at the command thought much of the notoriety that came after the Bin Laden raid.†   (source)
  • Max flushed with pride; Ms. Richter was notoriously spare with her compliments.†   (source)
  • I was constantly asked to make appearances and sign autographs, and maybe there was a way to leverage that notoriety to raise money to support the orphanage we started in the Philippines.†   (source)
  • The guys were notorious for holding back some of the money until the last minute.†   (source)
  • And her father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy, is notorious for his dalliances.†   (source)
  • He had never met the man, but of all the notorious faces that cluttered the pages of newspapers, this was the one he despised.†   (source)
  • Fish are notoriously nearsighted.†   (source)
  • If her father knew she'd met Longy Zwillman, New Jersey's most notorious gangster, at Dr. O's office, let alone held a dental mirror in his mouth, she didn't know what he'd do.†   (source)
  • Later the three of us moved to the dining room while my Aunt plucked notorious incidents from her brain.†   (source)
  • Many say that the notoriety he gained propelled him to the Democratic nomination and the governorship.†   (source)
  • " Then I'll admit how lazy and lucky I am and how successful and downright great some of the more notorious pencil sharpeners have been--two of my heroes, Frank Loesser and Irving Berlin, being among them.†   (source)
  • Veronica's mother is a Bedley Run police officer, whom I've come to know casually in the course of being a village merchant; her father, who used to be an officer himself (and the police chief of Ebbington, in fact), lost his life in a somewhat notorious local incident in which he was caught in a crossfire between his own officers and a group of out-of-town gamblers and loan sharks with whom he was enjoying the evening.†   (source)
  • There was no lack of volunteers; construction workers are notorious gossips.†   (source)
  • He's notorious for it."†   (source)
  • Examples like this are numerous and notorious.†   (source)
  • He smiled slightly, with a touch of the disdain for which he was rapidly becoming notorious.†   (source)
  • Glass had been a notorious drinker and womanizer for more than three decades.†   (source)
  • An add-on a week later stated that "the notorious agente provocateuse Wyoming Knott of Hong Kong in Luna, whose incendiary speech on Monday 13 May had incited the riot that cost the lives of nine brave officers, had not been apprehended in Luna City and had not returned to her usual haunts in Hong Kong in Luna, and was now believed to have died in the massacre she herself set off."†   (source)
  • Industrial profit margins are notoriously thin to begin with—typically in the low single digits—and reduced profits or losses would drive down Standard's stock price, making it a likely target for predatory acquisition.†   (source)
  • For a secure institution, it was a notoriously gossipy place.†   (source)
  • Phil was a notorious foreman on the duck-call assembly line.†   (source)
  • Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial responsibilities and print what they think their readers want.†   (source)
  • On the third page of the Post that evening was an article, accompanied by a most unflattering photograph, concerning the notorious Mississippi race-baiter and demagogue, Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo.†   (source)
  • Dutch Schultz was Newark's most notorious gangster.†   (source)
  • That is Yemassee's singular mark of notoriety.†   (source)
  • The prevalence of alcoholism, marital failure, neurosis, and psychosis among guards is notorious.†   (source)
  • Of the rajah, it is sufficient to tell that he is of middle height and middle years, shrewd, slightly stout, neither pious nor more than usually notorious and fabulously wealthy.†   (source)
  • He was big, fast, and notoriously rough, even in such a rough game as pro football.†   (source)
  • Adelbert Ames, first Senator and then Governor, was a native of Maine, a son-in-law of the notorious "butcher of New Orleans," Ben Butler.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL My dear More, the woman was notorious!†   (source)
  • I very shortly became notorious and children giggled behind me when I passed and their elders whispered or shouted—they really believed that I was mad.†   (source)
  • And the notorious Ben Reich.†   (source)
  • The city is notorious for corruption.
    notorious = well known for something bad
  • Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.   (source)
    notoriety = being famous for something bad
  • As a result, Mariam gained some notoriety among them, became a kind of celebrity.†   (source)
  • He read of his increasing national notoriety.†   (source)
  • Derwent received credit for this invention as well, and his reputation — or notoriety — grew.†   (source)
  • I had traded away my access to the Archives in exchange for a little notoriety.†   (source)
  • He tasted fame and notoriety, and he liked it.†   (source)
  • The Hailey trial had given him a dose of notoriety, and it was intoxicating.†   (source)
  • Furst has been getting plenty of notoriety out of it, too.†   (source)
  • As their notoriety spread, these lethal men became known by a single word-Hassassin-literally "the followers of hashish."†   (source)
  • If you wanted notoriety you got it.†   (source)
  • Not like an earlier response from a student, who had earned everlasting notoriety by yelling back the most insubordinate reply anyone had ever given one of the instructors.†   (source)
  • They had all been familiar with the case beforehand because of its great notoriety, and they were under the impression that the first conviction had been reversed on a technicality.†   (source)
  • How could he formulate a defense that Peter's act was one of desperation, not an attempt to one-up his brother's notoriety?†   (source)
  • He married and divorced repeatedly, gaining notoriety among gossip columnists for slugging one of his wives and engaging in public shouting matches with the others.†   (source)
  • Arrest would be good for his notoriety.†   (source)
  • Our notoriety precedes us.†   (source)
  • No one lingered long under the eye's prescient gaze, and it, combined with the man's lurching gait and notoriety, made him a popular subject for rumor and gossip.†   (source)
  • But with both Webster and Choate refusing to become involved, Tappan believed that there was only one other man who commanded both the notoriety and the legal ability needed for this case.†   (source)
  • Whatever Edgar's own claim to rank and notoriety, he found himself subject to anal flutters when chatting with a genuine celeb.†   (source)
  • …is, Moonman riding the sky in the heart of the Bronx, over the whole burnt and rusted country, and this is the art of the backstreets talking, all the way from Bird, and you can't not see us anymore, you can't not know who we are, we got total notoriety now, Momzo Tops and Rimester and me, we're getting fame, we ain't ashame, and the train go rattling over the garbagy streets and past the dead-eye windows of all those empty tenements that have people living there even if you don't see…†   (source)
  • Four weathered signs nailed to a pine log pointed toward the island's four claims to notoriety: BEACH, SCHOOLHOUSE, LIBRARY, and COOPER RIVER LANDING.†   (source)
  • The man was notoriously corrupt, and most unfit for his position.†   (source)
  • Just the worst of them, the most notorious.†   (source)
  • Nobody liked to say the word sabotage, which was notoriously bad for business.†   (source)
  • Notorious mass murderer or innocent singing sensation?†   (source)
  • Even then, he wished to be different, separate, notorious.†   (source)
  • And the French are notoriously exacting as an audience….†   (source)
  • Fache, though famous for his instinct, was notorious for his pride.†   (source)
  • Books about the law are notorious for being†   (source)
  • Well, irradiation is notoriously unreliable and probably doesn't work.†   (source)
  • Booth claimed the most notorious part in the plot for himself.†   (source)
  • He used to be one of the notorious single men in my town.†   (source)
  • The man had already told several different stories, and was a notorious liar into the bargain.†   (source)
  • Potter later gave evidence against Severus Snape, a man against whom he has a notorious grudge.†   (source)
  • Lillian Gordaina was Celaena Sardothien, the world's most notorious assassin.†   (source)
  • Two things separated Watanabe from other notorious war criminals.†   (source)
  • In B-24s notorious for fuel leaks, airmen lit cigarettes and blew up their planes.†   (source)
  • Her mom, a notorious gossip, spread the word at her bridge club.†   (source)
  • Federal court judges were notorious for trying to keep their cases on the straight and narrow.†   (source)
  • " This is followed by laughter, as Spence's porridge is notoriously awful.†   (source)
  • Vikings were notorious for appropriating from other cultures.†   (source)
  • Further, Philadelphia was notorious for its deadly epidemics of smallpox.†   (source)
  • Max was impressed that Miss Boon could keep a hold on Mum, who was notoriously strong for her size.†   (source)
  • He was notorious among his friends for pinching pennies and never throwing anything away.†   (source)
  • Paris traffic was notorious; anyone could be late.†   (source)
  • Chinese officials are notoriously late for conferences;†   (source)
  • Some years earlier that post had been occupied by the notorious Colonel Stig Wennerström.†   (source)
  • Burundi's tragedy was less notorious but much more prolonged.†   (source)
  • The doors in and out of Valhalla are notoriously wonky.†   (source)
  • He was one of the notorious Kleynhans brothers, known for their brutality to prisoners.†   (source)
  • The extravagance of the ruling class was notorious.†   (source)
  • The third one did not achieve even that sort of notorious distinction.†   (source)
  • They asked for whatever weapons the house had and my stepmother handed over the notorious shotgun.†   (source)
  • "I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.†   (source)
  • The Balegamires' father was still locked up in Makala, the notorious central prison in Kinshasa.†   (source)
  • Robinson Street especially was notorious for its rough gin shops and bawdy houses.†   (source)
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