All 3 Uses of
notorious
in
Oryx and Crake
- Nobody liked to say the word sabotage, which was notoriously bad for business.†
p. 176.7
- He'd complained about that to Student Services, and after a few tries — Student Services at Martha Graham was notoriously grumpy, staffed as it was by burnt-out TV-series actors who could not forgive the world for their plunge from marginal fame — he got himself moved to a single room.†
p. 189.4
- He could have bought them off the Net, of course — Martha Graham was notoriously lax about scorekeeping, and plagiarism was a cottage industry there — but he'd taken a position on that.†
p. 194.9 *
Definition:
well known for something bad