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Adjective
/nəˈtôrēəs/,/nō-/,
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Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed,
  1. Famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed
    • - Los Angeles is notorious for its smog
    • - he was a notorious drinker and womanizer
  1. ill-famed: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold";
  2. (notoriously) to a notorious degree; "European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets"
  3. Notorious is an American 1946 thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
  4. Notorious is a 2009 American biopic about the life of iconic hip hop star Christopher Wallace / Biggie Smalls / The Notorious B.I.G., who is played by Jamal Woolard. The film co-stars Angela Bassett as his mother Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Combs, and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur. ...
  5. Notorious is the fourth album by Duran Duran. Released in November 1986, it peaked at #16 in the UK and #12 in the US. The singles "Notorious" and "Skin Trade" demonstrated a Duran Duran reaching for funk, heavy on bass and brass. ...
  6. Notorious is a gang based in Sydney, Australia. It is widely considered to be an outlaw motorcycle club, though not all members ride motorcycles. ...
  7. Notorious is the seventh studio album by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. The album was released in 1991.
  8. Notorious is the second book in The It Girl series, released in 2006. It was written by a ghostwriter with suggestions from Cecily von Ziegesar. Aimed toward young adults, it is a spin-off from the bestselling Gossip Girl series.
  9. Notorious is the soundtrack to the 2009 biopic film Notorious based on the life and death of rapper The Notorious B.I.G.. It features mostly his previously heard songs, inclusively the ones harder to find such as "Party and Bullshit" and "One More Chance (Remix)". ...
  10. The Best Years is a television series which premiered on May 22, 2007 in Canada, and on June 29, 2007 in the United States. The Best Years was announced canceled after the first season, but later brought back to life and renewed to have another season beginning on April 3, 2009, in the U.S. ...
  11. Notorious is an American documentary television series that profiles the lives of infamous individuals in history. The series airs on The Biography Channel.
  12. Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997) was an American rapper. He was popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again), Big Poppa, Frank White (after the main character of the 1990 film King of New York), and by his primary stage ...
  13. Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous
  14. Adjective.  Well known for being bad or wicked.
  15. Little, Brown and Company/Bulfinch Press, 1992
  16. (adj) widely and unfavorably known