Associations to the word «Notorious»

Wiktionary

NOTORIOUS, adjective. Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.

Dictionary definition

NOTORIOUS, adjective. Known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope