All 3 Uses of
notorious
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.†
Chpt 1
- who ... was notoriously selfish and cruel,
Chpt 3 *notoriously = well known, in a bad way, for being
- Most of the old men were former coal miners from the notoriously cruel Kyushu mines.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
well known for something bad