Of a person or entity: generally or widely known for something negative; infamous.
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Such Men theſe had, to Miſchiefe vvholly bent, / In Villanie, notorious for their skill, / Diſhoneſt, deſp'rate, mercileſſe, and rude, / That dar'd into Damnation to intrude.
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1605, Michael Drayton, Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, published 1630, →OCLC, stanza 28, page 109:
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You notorious ſtinkardly bearevvard, do's my breath ſmell?
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1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 570:
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But Rutilus, is ſo Notorious grovvn, / That he's the common Theme of all the Tovvn.
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1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, William Congreve, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Eleventh Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 219, lines 9–10:
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A vvoman of quality, notorious for her gallantries, though as ſhe ſtill lived vvith her huſband, nobody choſe to place her in the claſs vvhere ſhe ought to have been placed, […]
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1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 232:
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Then he had gone to Oxford, had entered himself at Magdalene, and had soon become notorious there for every kind of vice.
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1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 290:
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He found out that she had belonged to a profession whose most notorious member for our generation was Mrs. Warren, and having made a competence she now lived the quiet life of the bourgeoise.
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1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 235:
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This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man—a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name—you have reflected the demi-monde rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up.
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1920 May 27, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1920, →OCLC, part I, page 6:
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Simon Forman was notorious in his day, and was a man of many reverses.
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1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: John Long, →OCLC, page 156:
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But he [William Bulger] forfeited this legacy long ago, shedding it in exchange for intense loyalty to another Boston power broker, his older brother, James (Whitey) Bulger, the city's notorious crime boss.
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2013 November 25, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Sticking by a murderous brother, and paying for it dearly”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-25:
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This is the Angola Prison Rodeo, a 53-year-old tradition at the biggest and most notorious prison in Louisiana, the incarceration capital of the world.
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2016 October 29, Aviva Shen, “Angola prison rodeo offers risks and rewards for Louisiana’s hard-knock lifers”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-10:
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The U.S. is notorious for spending oodles on health care, but health care has little to do with stopping the spread of infectious diseases.
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2021 June 25, Olga Khazan, “We’re Not Ready for Another Pandemic”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-05: