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Example sentences for "notorious"

Lexicographically close words:
notitiam; notochord; notochordal; notorieties; notoriety; notoriously; notour; notre; nots; nott
  1. Express scriptural authority for it undoubtedly there is none; but it is notorious that Palestine availed itself of all the advantages of Egypt, amongst which the rose in every variety was one.

  2. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is subscribed by a clear majority of the congregation.

  3. Another objection to that paper is, that it too easily assumes the radical falseness, of Pope, as a notorious fact needing no evidence or illustration.

  4. It is impossible, meanwhile, that the wreck of such a mountain should not have left traces visible and notorious to this day.

  5. Tall trees they are, and glorious to behold, when in full flower; but they are notorious mostly for their huge fruits and delicious nuts.

  6. That on Suum Cuique was in Latin, and was suggested by the grim satisfaction which had recently been expressed by the public at the capture and execution of some notorious highwayman.

  7. But I take it, that Ariel was fond of metheglin, of which the Bees are notorious Brewers.

  8. When some notorious Canadian robbers were arrested, Chiniquy was chosen by several as their confessor, and he constantly attended the prison, instructing them, and trying to teach them how to die.

  9. He was notorious for drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and his general deportment was so abandoned that he was wicked even to a proverb.

  10. Joseph Rodes Buchanan is briefly noticed, his name incorrectly spelled, a catalogue of his publications given, and a volume attributed to him which was written by the notorious Dr.

  11. So this was the notorious Captain Calamity; the man whose name, he had been told, was sufficient to cow the most disorderly ruffians that ever trod a ship's decks.

  12. Men of this class, who, for some reason or other, found themselves adrift in Singapore without a ship, fought shy of the notorious skipper.

  13. It is good that the average man should fall into the habit of looking imaginatively at ten men in the street even if it is only on the chance that the eleventh might be a notorious thief.

  14. His words would reach the public from the first stage in the land; his failure as an actor would be forgotten; his father would see that his son amid all his notorious fluctuations had chosen right, and all would be well.

  15. Moreover the laboratory of the newly-built technological institute was as famous for its excellent equipment, as that of Upsala was notorious for its poor one.

  16. He and the notorious Tom Hill once held up an old German in a sheep camp near what is now Alamagordo, New Mexico.

  17. Thus they died at last, two of the most notorious men of Texas, both with their boots on.

  18. He later moved to Jackson county, Missouri, near the home of the notorious James and Younger boys, and in 1851 married Adelaide Younger, they removing some years later from Missouri to Kansas.

  19. The most notorious of these border fighters was the bloody leader, Charles William Quantrell, leader at the sacking of Lawrence, and as dangerous a partisan leader as ever threw leg into saddle.

  20. So Major Hunt and Burke joined Miss Benson and the subaltern when they went to look at its body, and numbers of sepoys streamed up from the Fort to view the animal, which had long been notorious in the station.

  21. With a handful of sepoys of the Military Police he surprised a Bhuttia village in the No Man's Land along the border-line and captured a notorious outlaw who had plundered in Indian territory and had sent him a defiant challenge.

  22. Has our "best society" come to such a pass that its proudest ladies delight to personate notorious prostitutes?

  23. Paradoxical as it may appear, there are no men in this world who so reverence good women as those who are notorious for their illicit amours.

  24. For this is another cosmopolitan type of mushroom, common alike in America, Great Britain, Europe, and Asia, in all of which countries it is notorious for its poisonous resources.

  25. But it is well for the amateur to avoid these notorious species absolutely until their edibility becomes universally accepted by the "professionals.

  26. In the porch of the church of St Tremeur, the son of the notorious Breton Bluebeard, Comorre, there is one of the largest collections of these receptacles in Brittany.

  27. Cass Grimshaw, and the Grimshaw gang were notorious for their depredations throughout Montana and half of Wyoming.

  28. Well, I got kind of notorious fer savin' the dudes an' I had a good thing there until one day I seen a man hangin' around the depot.

  29. It is notorious that in America, ministers and church workers generally do not receive the compensation which they could command in secular employments or professions.

  30. The foreign settlements in the port cities of China are notorious for their profligacy.

  31. In Europe, Americans are notorious as spendthrifts.

  32. They are notorious for turbulence and are popularly known as ``Mohammedan thieves.

  33. The chief cause of China's hostility to foreigners undoubtedly lies in the notorious and often contemptuous disregard of these things by the majority of the white men who have entered China and by the Governments which have backed them.

  34. It is notorious that the Roman Catholic priests quite generally adopt the policy of interference on behalf of their converts.

  35. The five hundred monks in the Lama Temple in Peking are notorious not only for turbulence and robbery, but for vice.

  36. Even such a people as the English and the Scotch were at first inimical to railroads, and it is notorious that the great Stephenson had to meet not only ridicule but strenuous opposition.

  37. I saw her in New Orleans years ago when she was a very young woman--notorious then.

  38. He had never been notorious for bad habits or ugly temper.

  39. It was strange that as this attractive and notorious woman conceived a terror of Larry, she formed an infatuation for Neale.

  40. Oh, it is notorious that all the English bishops, excepting only Dr.

  41. At the same time some notorious malecontents were arrested, and were detained for a time on suspicion.

  42. The Whigs soon thought that sufficient ground had been laid for a vote condemning the naval administration, and moved a resolution attributing the miscarriage of the Smyrna fleet to notorious and treacherous mismanagement.

  43. On the ninth of November the Speaker informed the House that he had received this communication; but the House very properly refused even to suffer the letter of so notorious a villain to be read.

  44. But it is notorious that the settlement with which our liberties are inseparably bound up is attacked at once by foreign and by domestic enemies.

  45. Cornbury was a tool of Marlborough, and was the son of a nonjuror and of a notorious plotter.

  46. They had once looked up to the Speaker, Trevor; but his greediness, impudence and venality were now so notorious that all respectable gentlemen, of all shades of opinion, were ashamed to see him in the chair.

  47. Old Jackie's passports" to which she had referred were those cleverly fabricated since the war by an old man named James who lived at Notting Hill Gate, and who had at one time been a notorious forger.

  48. But at last, being convinced of the terrible sentence which awaited her, she ended her notorious career.

  49. Ruffian as he is he hath long been notorious for his crimes and violence.

  50. Often had he remonstrated, as it became him to do, against his colleague's violence towards the congregation, against repeated instances of notorious immorality and irregularity in his ministry, but in vain.

  51. The seasons themselves are only marked by the superficial, notorious circumstances which convey no pleasure in the repetition, unless they are accompanied by the nice discriminating touches of an exact observer.

  52. Now, it is notorious that Marie Antoinette was sent before the Revolutionary Tribunal, not at Robespierre's instance, but in direct opposition to Robespierre's wishes.

  53. It is, however, not difficult, from notorious facts, and from the admissions scattered over these lying Memoirs, to form a tolerably accurate notion of what took place.

  54. It seemed incredible that any French government, however notorious for levity or stupidity, could spurn away such an ally.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "notorious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abominable; acclaimed; arrant; atrocious; awful; base; beastly; blameworthy; blatant; bold; brassy; brazen; brutal; celebrated; common; commonplace; conspicuous; contemptible; current; deplorable; derogatory; despicable; detestable; dire; disgraceful; disgusting; dishonorable; disreputable; distinguished; dreadful; egregious; enormous; fabled; familiar; famous; fetid; filthy; flagrant; forward; foul; fulsome; glaring; grievous; gross; hackneyed; hateful; heinous; honored; horrible; horrid; household; ignoble; ignominious; immodest; infamous; inglorious; knavish; lamentable; leading; legendary; loathsome; lousy; marked; monstrous; mythical; nasty; nefarious; noisome; notable; noted; noticeable; notorious; obnoxious; obtrusive; odious; offensive; ostensible; outrageous; outstanding; pitiful; platitudinous; popular; prominent; pronounced; proverbial; public; rank; recreant; regrettable; renowned; reprehensible; reprobate; repulsive; roguish; rotten; sad; salient; scandalous; scurvy; seamy; shabby; shady; shameful; shameless; shocking; shoddy; sordid; spicy; squalid; staring; striking; terrible; trite; unabashed; unashamed; unclean; unembarrassed; unsavory; vile; villainous; woeful; worst; worthless; wretched