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notorious

CEFR: C1

Widely celebrated or well known for negative, disreputable, or harmful qualities.

Synonyms

infamous
disreputable

Common Collocations

notorious for
notorious criminal
notorious example

Example Sentence

The seventeenth-century Dutch spice monopoly was notorious for enforcing violent production quotas in the Banda Islands.

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