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  • who ... was notoriously selfish and cruel,   (source)
    notoriously = well known, in a bad way, for being
  • That's what he wants-publicity-notoriety.   (source)
    notoriety = fame for something bad
  • Whether it was the calculated way in which she divided the food, or the considerable muzzling of her notorious mouth, or even the gentler expression on her cardboard face, one thing was becoming clear.†   (source)
  • "How could a notorious terrorist be hiding in Pakistan and remain undetected for so many years?" he asked.†   (source)
  • People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had memorized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation.†   (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)
  • Though the Japanese press covered the European theater accurately, it was notorious for distorting the news of the Pacific war, sometimes absurdly.†   (source)
  • It's what you feel — even I feel — when coming across those small items in the paper concerning folks once famous or glamorous or notorious, and long thought dead.†   (source)
  • The last king of the Shang Dynasty, he was a notorious tyrant in Chinese history.†   (source)
  • Among readers of European fiction, the character names in Russian novels are notorious for their difficulty.†   (source)
  • "Tree work" is notoriously demanding and dangerous.†   (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)
  • Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read.†   (source)
  • Air is notoriously uncooperative when it comes to giant, gaping holes in your EVA suit.†   (source)
  • Seiler had learned from the bailiffs, who were notorious for prying and telling tales, that the jurors were evenly split.†   (source)
  • And now I'm going to enter this nerd school, not as a fellow nerd, but as a feared and notorious outlaw?†   (source)
  • The tallish boy, the notorious cemetery vandal, sprawled his legs into the center aisle, indifferently creating a hazard for the elderly, the infirm, and the unwary.†   (source)
  • That was expected by Adarlan's most notorious assassin.†   (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 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)
  • Nwayieke lived four compounds away, and she was notorious for her late cooking.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Anyway, it usually disintegrates monsters on contact, but big powerful ones have notoriously tough hides.†   (source)
  • They know he might turn them over to Mr. Coffey and 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • PUTNAM, pointing at the whimpering Betty: That is a notorious sign of witchcraft afoot, Goody Nurse, a prodigious sign!†   (source)
  • Recon was a notoriously dangerous posting with a high fatality rate, and Root didn't think it was any place for a girlie.†   (source)
  • The facility was notoriously expensive, but because my dad had a government pension, Social Security, Medicare, and private insurance to boot (I could imagine him signing, on the insurance salesman's dotted line years before without really understanding what he was paying for), I was assured that the only cost would be emotional.†   (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)
  • Since 'Jew' to antisemite mind is not the same as true Russian—Russia is notorious of this fact.†   (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)
  • In Tierra Blanca in the Mexican state of Veracruz, during a brief train stop, I feverishly tried to get the local police to find and arrest a notoriously vicious gangster named Blackie, after learning he was aboard the train I was about to reboard.†   (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)
  • A notorious robber band once lived there.†   (source)
  • For decades, L.A. was notorious for restrictive covenants — where some areas were off limits to "undesirables."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Pit bulls are known for their aggression, and they were especially notorious during this time in South Florida.†   (source)
  • While I enjoyed the notoriety, a cold anxiety was slowly growing in my gut.†   (source)
  • One of the worst of the Jewish police was murdered: Lejkin, notorious for his industry in hunting people down and delivering his quotas to the Umschlagplatz.†   (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)
  • Much of the novel's notoriety, actually; beyond the fact that it has any pederasty, lies in its triple-X imitators.†   (source)
  • The housing market is obscene, health care is a luxury, addiction rehab is in short supply, the schools have shameful dropout rates, the service economy doesn't pay a living wage, the notorious L.A. gangs are selling drugs outside twelve-step programs, the psychiatric emergency room is jammed and mental health services like the ones at Lamp are few and far between.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine what it would be like to suddenly wake up a thousand years from now having lost my ship in a notorious incident, all my friends dead, my house gone.†   (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)
  • Burnham knew how to deal with Chicago's notoriously flimsy soil, but Jackson Park surprised even him.†   (source)
  • This was the notorious women's extermination camp whose name we had heard even in Haarlem.†   (source)
  • It's one of Mobutu's most notorious dungeons, and we're all aware Anatole could end up there, any day.†   (source)
  • He only read the headline: NOTORIOUS HOTEL SOLD FOLLOWING MURDER OF UNDERWORLD FIGURE.†   (source)
  • SEALs are pretty notorious for getting into bar scrapes, and I was no exception.†   (source)
  • The researchers chose black subjects because they, like many whites at the time, believed black people were "a notoriously syphilis-soaked race."†   (source)
  • Greer was notoriously tight with a buck.†   (source)
  • I was notorious in the family for loving food, and if any food was missing they would always blame me first.†   (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)
  • Soon his terrible need became notorious.†   (source)
  • The men were jailed in one of Central Africa's most notorious prisons: the Central Penitentiary and Re-education Center in Kinshasa, known to most locals by its old name, Makala.†   (source)
  • Lafayette Baker, the notorious detective and War Department agent — and a favorite of Stanton's — had been in Washington since April 16.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • So one Saturday Eric and a few of his classmates took a bus into the nearest city and visited a notorious whorehouse.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Since the UMWA was notorious for lacking strike funds, a lot of families were facing a potentially desperate situation.†   (source)
  • Kim's mom was notoriously overprotective.†   (source)
  • Secluded five miles up a rutted dirt track, the played-out mine was a notorious party spot.†   (source)
  • But, to be fair, perhaps Faces Sunward had been in hibernation when Fire World became notorious.†   (source)
  • President Musharraf initially admired Mukhtar's courage, but he wanted Pakistan to be renowned for a sizzling economy, not notorious for barbaric rapes.†   (source)
  • The cat was a notorious pillow hog.†   (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)
  • Standing in the middle of it was, though I didn't know it then, Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele.†   (source)
  • Augustus was notorious all over Texas for the strength of his voice.†   (source)
  • A mill notorious in the district for its ancient, unsanitary buildings, its poor management, its bad treatment of its hands.†   (source)
  • She's notoriously evil.†   (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)
  • Also listed was Dorcas Griffith, who ran a notorious waterfront grog shop and was known to be John Hancock's "discarded" mistress.†   (source)
  • It's also one notoriously ignored by the staff.†   (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)
  • Doctors are notorious for taking peculiar views of their own bodies.†   (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)
  • He's notorious for it.†   (source)
  • Richter was notoriously spare with her compliments.†   (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)
  • The girl was in fact notorious for her hustles of new prisoners, so Annette felt burned, and her caution was outsize.†   (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)
  • Simeon's brothers and cousins were notorious lowlifes—same gene pool— and they would cause trouble.†   (source)
  • And her father-in-law, Joseph Kennedy, is notorious for his dalliances.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Homemade boomers were notoriously unstable.†   (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 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)
  • Their eggs are the size of a man's head, their hatchlings notoriously bloodthirsty.†   (source)
  • Paris traffic was notorious; anyone could be late.†   (source)
  • Many say that the notoriety he gained propelled him to the Democratic nomination and the governorship.†   (source)
  • A few weeks later, the government introduced the notorious Suppression of Communism Act and the ANC called an emergency conference in Johannesburg.†   (source)
  • Fish are notoriously nearsighted.†   (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)
  • , and a devotee of Havana's most notorious fleshpots, broke his clavicle dancing with the widow Doña Victoria del Paso.†   (source)
  • The guys were notorious for holding back some of the money until the last minute.†   (source)
  • No one at the command thought much of the notoriety that came after the Bin Laden raid.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But the general was a notorious nonsmoker, and Exner had not dared to ask permission.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I remembered the blonde's name—it was Lindsay, a notorious wet.†   (source)
  • DIA is notoriously tight-lipped about its people and what they do.†   (source)
  • Later the three of us moved to the dining room while my Aunt plucked notorious incidents from her brain.†   (source)
  • Phil was a notorious foreman on the duck-call assembly line.†   (source)
  • Glass had been a notorious drinker and womanizer for more than three decades.†   (source)
  • He smiled slightly, with a touch of the disdain for which he was rapidly becoming notorious.†   (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)
  • Examples like this are numerous and notorious.†   (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 spent several years inside the GID's secret prisons, including a stint in the notorious desert fortress at al-Jafr.†   (source)
  • Newspapers shirk notoriously their editorial responsibilities and print what they think their readers want.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The prevalence of alcoholism, marital failure, neurosis, and psychosis among guards is notorious.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL My dear More, the woman was notorious!†   (source)
  • He was big, fast, and notoriously rough, even in such a rough game as pro football.†   (source)
  • That is Yemassee's singular mark of notoriety.†   (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)
  • And the notorious Ben Reich.†   (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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ancillaries were notorious for their expressionless faces.†   (source)
  • , "Well, irradiation is notoriously unreliable and probably doesn't work.†   (source)
  • His bank was notorious for avoiding black customers.†   (source)
  • Head wounds are notorious bleeders, so such a wound is unlikely, but there has to be some explanation.†   (source)
  • He would recognize the name of Jake Brigance, but only because Jake was from Karaway and the Hailey trial had been so notorious.†   (source)
  • As a result, Mariam gained some notoriety among them, became a kind of celebrity.†   (source)
  • He read of his increasing national notoriety.†   (source)
  • I had traded away my access to the Archives in exchange for a little notoriety.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed both fame and notoriety for a brief time.†   (source)
  • Derwent received credit for this invention as well, and his reputation — or notoriety — grew.†   (source)
  • He tasted fame and notoriety, and he liked it.†   (source)
  • Furst has been getting plenty of notoriety out of it, too.†   (source)
  • Sistrunk was riding a wave of notoriety.†   (source)
  • The Hailey trial had given him a dose of notoriety, and it was intoxicating.†   (source)
  • As their notoriety spread, these lethal men became known by a single word-Hassassin-literally "the followers of hashish."†   (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)
  • If you wanted notoriety you got it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Arrest would be good for his 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)
  • 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)
  • Our notoriety precedes us.†   (source)
  • Whatever Edgar's own claim to rank and notoriety, he found himself subject to anal flutters when chatting with a genuine celeb.†   (source)
  • alleys and slams out of the tunnel, going whop-pop onto the high tracks, and suddenly there it 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 them, but you have to see our tags and cartoon figures and bright and rhyming poems, this is the art that can'†   (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)
  • Notorious mass murderer or innocent singing sensation?†   (source)
  • Even then, he wished to be different, separate, notorious.†   (source)
  • Vikings were notorious for appropriating from other cultures†   (source)
  • The man was notoriously corrupt, and most unfit for his position.†   (source)
  • Just the worst of them, the most notorious.†   (source)
  • Potter later gave evidence against Severus Snape, a man against whom he has a notorious grudge.†   (source)
  • The man had already told several different stories, and was a notorious liar into the bargain.†   (source)
  • Books about the law are notorious for being†   (source)
  • Fache, though famous for his instinct, was notorious for his pride.†   (source)
  • Lillian Gordaina was Celaena Sardothien, the world's most notorious assassin.†   (source)
  • Am I still that notorious, or that paranoid?†   (source)
  • But what of that notorious misanthrope of a chef?†   (source)
  • He used to be one of the notorious single men in my town.†   (source)
  • Eventually, I see them all—you can't escape the damn things; Hester's rock videos are notorious.†   (source)
  • Two things separated Watanabe from other notorious war criminals.†   (source)
  • Nobody liked to say the word sabotage, which was notoriously bad for business.†   (source)
  • The Balegamires' father was still locked up in Makala, the notorious central prison in Kinshasa.†   (source)
  • And the French are notoriously exacting as an audience....†   (source)
  • In B-24s notorious for fuel leaks, airmen lit cigarettes and blew up their planes.†   (source)
  • Booth claimed the most notorious part in the plot for himself.†   (source)
  • Her mom, a notorious gossip, spread the word at her bridge club.†   (source)
  • He was notorious among his friends for pinching pennies and never throwing anything away.†   (source)
  • But parks were so notoriously unsafe that honest people stayed clear of them after dark.†   (source)
  • This is followed by laughter, as Spence's porridge is notoriously awful.†   (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)
  • Federal court judges were notorious for trying to keep their cases on the straight and narrow.†   (source)
  • The doors in and out of Valhalla are notoriously wonky.†   (source)
  • Lutins were notorious gamblers, but Max saw a host of other creatures in attendance.†   (source)
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