Notoriety
[nəʊtə'raɪɪtɪ] or [,notə'raɪəti]
Definition
(noun.) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Editor: Tracy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Repute (generally in a bad sense), reputation, celebrity, fame, name, note, vogue, figure.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Publicity, vogue, repute, celebrity, knowledge_certainty
ANT:Privacy, secrecy, concealment, obscurity, mystery, suspicion, rumor, whisper
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage with angels ascending and descending.
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Examples
- They were gazelles, of soft-eyed notoriety. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His affections are, I believe, at this moment, divided between a Mrs. Bang, a Mrs. Patten and a Mrs. Pancrass, all ladies of Covent Garden notoriety. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroon girls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Montagu, the relation of the lady in Gloucester Place, of chimney-sweeping notoriety, assisted to keep up the spirit of the dance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- When we met latterly in the Park, there was something so natural and unaffected, and wild, about your manner, that I began to forget your notoriety. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- All I feared was to bring notoriety, scandal, on the family--on you and May. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Zalinski dynamite gun was of this class, and the first which attained any notoriety. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Thompsonian system of treating diseases was covered by patents in 1813, 1823 and 1836, and attained considerable notoriety in the early half of the century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Are men dazzled simply by the scale of his flounderings, by the mere vastness of his notoriety? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They hanged at Tyburn, in those days, so the street outside Newgate had not obtained one infamous notoriety that has since attached to it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Insufferable to him were all notorieties and celebrities: where he could not outshine, he fled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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