Synonym: ill fame. Similar words: variety, a variety, a variety of, proprietor, notorious, notoriously, piety, gaiety. Meaning: [‚nəʊtə'raɪətɪ] 
n. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality.
n. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality. 
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1. John is already a writer of some notoriety.
2. He achieved sudden notoriety when the details of his private life were revealed.
3. His abrasive manner has won him an unenviable notoriety.
4. His adventure brought him both fame and notoriety.
5. His crimes earned him considerable notoriety.
6. The local church has gained notoriety for being different.
7. He gained a certain notoriety as a gambler.
8. She achieved notoriety for her affair with the senator.
9. He achieved/gained notoriety for murdering eleven women in the north of England.
10. His experiments have achieved notoriety in the world of science.
11. This make of car has a certain notoriety for rust problems.
12. He achieved notoriety as chief counsel to President Nixon in the Watergate break-in.
13. No further fuel should be added to his notoriety.
14. As a forest justice he earned some notoriety.
15. And, more importantly, so did the notoriety.
16. He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start.
17. Margaret Sanger had courted notoriety and even jail; she was replaced by men more familiar with Wall Street than the Bowery.
18. Nilsen gained notoriety a decade ago at the so-called house of horror in North London.
19. Salem's tourist industry plays on its notoriety for the witchcraft trials.
20. For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its private madhouses.
21. And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense.
22. In a bid for public notoriety[sentencedict.com], the bomber criticized the news blackout of his campaign.
23. Thereafter, Bourke enjoyed the notoriety of his escapades and even wrote a book about them.
23. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
24. The great white has a certain notoriety for being the only shark species to attack humans without apparent cause.
25. This question has achieved some notoriety in two cases concerning telephone tapping.
26. And others will gain notoriety for how fiercely wild their machinery is.
27. His daring escape from prison gained him a certain notoriety.
28. The younger generations of Tenants still earn their share of fame and, unfortunately, notoriety.
29. One particular night, young John Armitage, a very junior passed engine cleaner had no notion of the bridge's notoriety.
30. Howandever, didn't Imelda take it into her head that she and Franklyn were on the brink of notoriety?
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