Notoriously
[noˈtɔːriəsli]
Definition
(adv.) to a notorious degree; 'European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets'.
Typist: Portia--From WordNet
Examples
- I had a notoriously slow horse, but somehow I could not keep him in the rear, to save my neck. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Philip Fairlie had been one of the notoriously handsome men of his time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These gatherings are notoriously untruthful--in fact, there is a genial pleasure in not telling the truth about one's salad days in the socialist movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Example is notoriously more potent than precept. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Consequently, I continued, it must be painful for you to continue with a woman so notoriously wicked as I am, and in my private box too! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Typist: Portia