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1. (adj.) notorious
widely and unfavorably known:
a notorious thief.
2. notorious
publicly or generally known:
a notorious scandal.
Etymology: (1540–50; < ML nōtōrius evident = L nō(scere) to get to know (see notify ) +-tōrius -tory1)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) ill-famed, infamous, notorious
known widely and usually unfavorably
"a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
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1. (adjective) notorious
famous for being bad or doing bad things
a notorious criminal/crime; a restaurant notorious for its bad service; a notoriously dangerous area
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1. (adj) notorious
generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice
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Sense: well-known for badness or wickedness
a notorious murderer.
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 Afrikaans: berug |
 Arabic: مَشْهور بِسوء السُّمْعَه |
 Bulgarian: всеизвестен |
 Brazilian: famigerado |
 Czech: nechvalně známý |
 German: berüchtigt |
 Danish: berygtet |
 Greek: διαβόητος |
 Spanish: notorio |
 Estonian: kurikuulus |
 Farsi: بدنام رسوا |
 Finnish: pahamaineinen |
 French: notoire |
 Hebrew: יָדוּע לְשִמצָה |
 Hindi: कुख्यात |
 Croatian: na zlu glasu, zloglasan |
 Hungarian: hírhedt |
 Indonesian: terkenal jahat |
 Icelandic: alræmdur, illræmdur |
 Italian: famigerato |
 Japanese: 悪名高い |
 Korean: 악명 높은 |
 Lithuanian: liūdnai pagarsėjęs |
 Latvian: bēdīgi slavens |
 Malay: terkenal |
 Dutch: berucht |
 Norwegian: beryktet, notorisk |
 Polish: osławiony |
 Persian: بدنام رسوا |
 Pashto: بد نامه |
 Portuguese: famigerado |
 Romanian: notoriu |
 Russian: пользующийся дурной славо |
 Slovak: smutne preslávený |
 Slovenian: razvpit |
 Serbian: ozloglašen |
 Swedish: ökänd, beryktad |
 Thai: ซึ่งมีชื่อเสียงในทางที่ไม |
 Turkish: kötü şöhretli, adı çıkmış |
 Taiwanese: 聲名狼籍的 |
 Ukrainian: горезвісний, сумнозвісний |
 Urdu: بدنام |
 Vietnamese: tai tiếng |
 Chinese: 声名狼藉的 |
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