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Notoriously

Notorious \No*to"ri*ous\, a. [L. notorius pointing out, making known, fr. noscere, notum, to known: cf. F. notoire. See Know.] 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.

Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
--Shak.

Syn: Distinguished; remarkable; conspicuous; celebrated; noted; famous; renowned. [1913 Webster] -- No*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- No*to"ri*ous*ness, n.

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notoriously

adv. In a notorious or notable manner; as is commonly known.

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notoriously

adv. to a notorious degree; "European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets"

Usage examples of "notoriously".

Watering-place life is notoriously conducive to idleness of mind, and Bernard strolled for half an hour along the overarched avenue, glancing alternately at these two insupposable cases.

But if a Norman town was close and dull, the Norman country was notoriously fresh and entertaining, and the next morning Bernard got into a caleche, with his luggage, and bade its proprietor drive him along the coast.

In the most reserved of modern societies the women who represent their highest flower are notoriously complaisant to royalty.

Electronic evidence was notoriously manipulatable -inadmissible in honest courts.

After all, storks were notoriously myopic, and sometimes misdelivered babies.

W, a mile north of the 100-fathom line, less than two miles from the notoriously shallow Overfall Shoal, which stretches six miles out from Rose Point, the northeasterly tip of Graham Island.

Mr Peter Dunston, would succumb to the advances of a man who had nothing whatsoever to recommend him to one so notoriously picksome as she was?

The song of a prothonotary warbler is notoriously monotonous, as I am the first to admit.

Conversions from Edenist habitat memories to a standard Adamist electronic format were notoriously quirky, but this was something else again.

It was secured with what locksmiths refer to as a wafer lock, notoriously easy to pick, even for fairly clumsy, amateur lock-pickers like us.

I had only my salary from Anglia, and what I could earn by being frankly, almost notoriously, a shamateur jockey.

We are part of the showboat family now, and they are notoriously close mouthed around strangers, especially when someone has come around asking questions about one of their own.

Le Sourd put them in danger of being sought out by the Bishop and the Inquisitor as heretics and sorcerers of notoriously evil repute.

Two--Duport de Tertre, Keeper of the Seals, and Duportail, Minister of War--were creatures of La Fayette, and the first mentioned was notoriously unfriendly to the queen.

Meanwhile the young generation of anti-sesthetic radicals, provoked by the overtly uncivic character of his poetry and by his notoriously reactionary sympathies, started a systematic campaign against him.