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Definition of Notorious
1. Adjective. Known widely and usually unfavorably. "The infamous Benedict Arnold"
Definition of Notorious
1. a. 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.
Definition of Notorious
1. Adjective. Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Notorious
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Notorious
Literary usage of Notorious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"In defiance of the law of the country, be purchased his seat of a notorious
borough-monger—of no less a person than the Duke of Newcastle. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Notoriety is the quality or the state of things that are notorious; whatever is
so fully or officially proved, that it may and ought tobe held as certain ..."
3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"How is it possible for those who are men of honour in their persons, thus to
become notorious liars in their party? If we look into the bottom of this ..."
4. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"decried the popular use of the infusion; this was reviewed by Johnson, m notorious
tea-drinker, in the Literary ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In 1874 he became Secretary of the Treasury and made his name memorable by the
exposure and prosecution of a notorious whisky ring. ..."
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