adjective
Examples of notorious in a Sentence
Her life was notorious for intrigue and perfidy.
As a port it was notorious for its smuggling and illicit trade.
Two other sons, Rocco and Cristoforo, both of them notorious rakes, were killed in brawls.
From the 17th century until modern times this was notorious as a home of crime and poverty.
He is notorious for his wilful exaggeration, both in narrative and numerical statements.
The popes themselves were notorious offenders.
He was appointed introducer of ambassadors on the 12th of October 1671, and it became notorious that whoever had a petition to present or a place to ask for must apply to him.
His Orphelin de la Chine, performed at Paris in 1755, was very well received; the notorious La Pucelle appeared in the same year.
Even the nuns of Geneva were notorious for their conduct."
Cesare was Alexander's favourite son, and it was for him that the pope's notorious nepotism was most extensively practised.
Until the close of the 18th century Dalkey was notorious for the burlesque election of a "king," a mock ceremony which became invested with a certain political importance.
Some of them were notorious evillivers.
It is also notorious for its many witchcraft trials.
Oxygen is the most notorious free radical.
It is one of a small cluster named by the Portuguese "Ladrones" or Thieves, on account of the notorious habits of their old inhabitants.
Moreover, the idea of corporate responsibility and discipline was overshadowed by that of medicine for the individual soul, though public penance was still often exacted, especially in cases of notorious crime, as when Henry II.
This was due not so much to the notorious corruption of the representative system as to the fact that it represented social and economic conditions that were rapidly passing away.
His notorious sympathy with the peasantry further alienated the official classes and landed gentry, and his campaign against enclosures brought him into conflict with the strongest forces of the time.
An eminently safe and scholarly archbishop was found in Matthew Parker, who had not made himself notorious by resistance to authority even under Mary.
The king was generally loathed, not so much for his viceswhich would have been, in this case as in others, condoned in a more popular monarchbut for the notorious meanness and selfishness of his character.
His first refuge was in Wei, a part of the present Ho-nan, the marquis of which received him kindly; but he was a weak man, ruled by his wife, a woman notorious for her accomplishments and wickedness.
This pope was notorious for nepotism, and was responsible for introducing his nephew, Rodrigo Borgia, afterwards Pope Alexander VI., to Rome.
By 1492 he had become sufficiently notorious to attract the attention of King Henry's government and of foreign sovereigns.
In this account nothing is said of confession; but it would appear that in early days the sins were made known to the congregation, and in notorious cases they would take the initiative and expel the offender.
His defence of the notorious edict of July 9, 1788, issued by the Prussian minister for ecclesiastical affairs, Johann Christoph von Wollner (1732-1800), the object of which was to enforce Lutheran orthodoxy, might with greater justice be cited as a sign of the decline of his powers and of an unfaithfulness to his principles.
The Kurirs, a wandering and thieving tribe, the Kamais, professional burglars, and the Baruds, cattle-stealers and highwaymen, are notorious among the criminal classes.
Early in the 18th century the Scottish gipsies found a congenial home on the Roxburghshire side of the Cheviots; and at a later period the Scottish border became notorious for a hundred years as offering hospitality to runaway couples who were clandestinely married at Gretna Green, Coldstream or Lamberton.
As the preparations of the Jacobins had been notorious, some Rng of the isi fOth of measures of defence had been taken.
Many notorious bad characters had managed to creep into posts of influence and used their position to wreak personal vengeance or to enrich themselves at the expense of the public or the public treasury.
The Fijians were formerly notorious for cannibalism, which may have had its origin in religion, but long before the first contact with Europeans had degenerated into gluttony.
Maelmorda was restored to his kingdom, Sigtrygg received Brian's daughter in marriage, whilst Brian took to himself the Dublin king's mother, the notorious Gormflaith, who had already been divorced by Maelsechlainn.
The site of Harris's notorious mill and mill pond is beyond and partly below the Roman way flyover.
New York Post - The notorious Page Six gives all of the latest headlines, photos and celebrity sightings that hungry fans are looking for.
Cold weather is notorious for drying out the legs, feet, hands, and face, so you may need help for cracking skin during winter.
None came close to the successful track record of those tips identified as coming from the notorious Psychic Tipster.
A trader who is even suspected of dealing with such a victim of tyranny may be ruined by the mere imputation; his customers shun him from fear, and he is obliged to get a character from some notorious leaguer.
Mrs. Needham, for example, was a notorious bawd who died three days after being pilloried in 1731.
Once a meeting place of the notorious hellfire Club - now a great way to spend a day with the family.
The case was a notorious miscarriage of justice in Scotland.
Dr. Crippen Crippen is one of the most notorious murderers in the history of Scotland Yard.
There were many false starts, two of which were particularly notorious.
Wentworth beats him to the draw and leaves on his forehead the seal of The Spider, an already notorious killer of criminals.
Beside AMERY, another notorious British civilian renegade was directly involved in the BFC.
At the car park they swoop, carting away some of London's most notorious villains.
It is notorious that the Italians who emigrate to the United States largely return.
Part of a notorious Queens Park play area went up in smoke in the latest vandalism attack.
The stage is notorious for paling the skin with its glaring lights, and so a little blush goes a long way in the performing arts.
The venality of the electors became notorious.
This "Puttkammer regime" was intensely unpopular; it was attacked in the Reichstag not only by Radicals like Richter and Rickert, but by National Liberals like Bennigsen, and when the emperor Frederick III., whose Liberal tendencies were notorious, succeeded to the throne, it was clear that it could not last.
At this moment a notorious fraud was perpetrated on the Stock Exchange by an uncle of his and by other persons with whom he habitually acted in his speculations.