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Definition of notoriety:

  • (noun) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality

Sentence Examples:

Lockhart and John Wilson, and the new policy, although nominally Tory, was first and last the magazine's notoriety.

Leaving my partner, Rose, to complete our grading contract, I immediately began my career as a buffalo hunter for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and it was not long before I acquired considerable notoriety.

To play at Literature is altogether inexcusable: the motive is vanity, the object notoriety, the end contempt.

Seekers after notoriety must often be at their wits' end for some new sensation with which to advertise themselves.

Its members were prudent and calm, men of letters before all, who avoided notoriety, and contented themselves with private discussion; it was thought better policy to keep them under observation, and between four walls.

By this means it has acquired a detestable notoriety.

"They are impelled by vanity, and seek the notoriety of scandal," said the envious.

While some of them may, as is frequently charged, be courting notoriety, I have no doubt they are generally earnestly engaged in a work which, in their opinion, would better their condition and would do no injury to society.

She pictured to herself the notoriety that would necessarily ensue.

All over that region of country, the brutal butchery of George is a matter of public notoriety.

Another, who is equally disposed to sport with their notoriety, says, "as they are visible in the street, they are more admired by many of the populace on Sundays, than the most elegant preacher from the pulpit within."

Yet do not be made conceited by obscurity, any more than by notoriety.

It seems to have acquired notoriety chiefly in the disorderly days of Stephen.

Circumstances had given me undesired notoriety in that connection.

The desire of social notoriety may beget wanton fabrications.

Margaret had no love of notoriety, or taste for eccentricity, to goad her, and no weak fear of either.

The Saint spurns notoriety and the homage of men, yet exults in his control over the multitudes.

Much of Greene's notoriety during his lifetime grew from his prose writings, which, in the form of tracts, were rapidly thrown off, and were well adapted both in matter and style to catch a loud but transient popularity.

The actress in search of notoriety does not lose her jewels: she brings an action which is reported at great length, and during it half-a-dozen members of the profession get a splendid chance of blowing their own trumpets.

Such individuals have been found even among those races with the greatest notoriety for ugliness.

He thirsted for approbation, for distinction, for notoriety.

"They would make a sensational story out of it, and I detest notoriety."

Even Professors might be misled by the desire for notoriety.

Is he really crazy, as they say, or is he just an ordinary notoriety seeker?

Buck had come, constrained and silent; he was obviously awed by the Doc's sudden emergence into stunning notoriety.

He replied, that he had no testimony of authority but the notoriety of his being a public officer, and the evidence of the gentlemen that were with him, confirming his own declaration, that he acted in this particular by the express order of council.

Then Bland unwittingly pushed Johnny Jewel from the edge of obscurity into the bright light of notoriety again.

Any excess of notoriety, any marked personal eccentricity, would surely place him under the ban.

I pass over notoriety and popular fame, raised by the united voice of knaves and fools.

Rather startled by this sudden notoriety, Edgar approached the new arrivals.

I have always had a secret but deep-rooted love of notoriety; it makes my blood tingle with a most delicious sensation.

He did love notoriety ... he enjoyed every clipping about himself with infinite gusto.

We might easily find enough so that if you cared to push it he would prefer to make some concessions rather than suffer any unpleasant notoriety; and she may have a past which she would do much to keep forgotten.

I have no desire to sell my soul for anything, least of all for sham fame, mere notoriety.

Foolishly vain, he was ready to do anything to maintain his notoriety.

The gambler did a thriving business through the notoriety the affair had given him.

I've run down wealthy gunmen, and I've turned men's fame to a notoriety that carried a stench.

About a year before his death he returned to his native parish, his great age bringing him into much notoriety; but his death was very sudden, and great was the surprise on all sides when it became known that he was a man.

They are not open to the suspicion which often attaches itself to Parliamentarians who take up some special cause, viz. that they may be seeking to acquire personal notoriety or to gain some party advantage.

She was not in the least jealous; all her old, childish fancy for him had been killed by that strenuous marriage ceremony, but she dreaded the newspapers and the notoriety which would inevitably follow any attempt on either side to obtain a divorce.

The men in the clubs held he was driven by a desire for notoriety, the men in the street that he was more clever than they guessed, and had made the move to suit his own book, to alter the odds to his own advantage.

The unsolicited notoriety her exploit had brought upon her had been its chief penalty.

She was always unobtrusive, and anxious in every way to avoid notoriety.

It is evident that, once having tasted the fruit of notoriety, he was loath to fall back on simpler fare.

When Stephen de Muret, its founder, began to manifest his sanctity by giving sight to a blind man, his disciples took alarm at the thought of the wealth and notoriety which was likely to come to them from this cause.

The old love of notoriety swept over Gordon once more; he felt frightfully bucked with himself.

This claim provoked a scandalous sensation and gave my book an unwholesome notoriety.

It is gratifying to a novelist to be famous, and even notoriety is pleasant.

They are, it would seem, of public notoriety in Pomerania; and hundreds of persons in the neighborhood, as my informant declared, can yet be found to testify, from personal observation, to the general accuracy of the above narration.

They could not think of the newspaper notoriety that the avowal of the truth would give them.

"Strange one so deserving should shun notoriety," remarked Sheldon.

Lopez, president in 1862 of Paraguay, has secured notoriety for having had the worst character in all American history.

Officers are more selfish, dishonest, and grasping in their struggle for notoriety than the miser for gold.

The Finger of the Sun when long gives love of the beautiful, desire for celebrity and fame, but when excessively long, the tendency inclines more toward notoriety, risk in speculation, the love of money and gambling.

She was one that winced at notoriety; and she could not hope to escape it now.

He lacks intelligence, has no perception of what is excellent, no faith in ideals, no reverence for genius, no belief in any highest sort of man who has not shown his worth in winning wealth, position, or notoriety.

Many, indeed, love and win notoriety, but such as they need not detain us here.

In choosing an occupation, do not ask yourself how you can make the most money or gain the most notoriety, but choose that work which will call out all your powers and develop your manhood into the greatest strength and symmetry.

He was at the height of his flagrant notoriety.

Notoriety and display are supremely distasteful to him.

Fully convinced that in degree both were guilty of this murder and of an attempt upon his own life, he reasoned that neither would risk further notoriety than such as might be essential to their own protection.

With all his excitement, Paul will shun notoriety by discreet silence.

Thereby opportunities are brought to their notice, but tinkling notoriety jars upon refined benevolent sense.

Paul might bring on notoriety by some fierce, resentful act.

Averse to needless or indiscreet notoriety at this particular time, I refrain from inquiry.

The article made a full page spread in the Sunday edition of the young man's paper, and thereby a reputation, which until this time had been more or less local, was given what approximated a national notoriety.

"I wasn't thinking of Helen," I responded testily, "but a lot of cheap notoriety won't help our law practice any."

He was the most conspicuous public rascal of his time, but was far from being alone in his odious notoriety.

Notoriety was distasteful to him, and in this respect he was above the plane of an ordinary charlatan.

He was an adept in the wily arts of the charlatan, achieving notoriety by unscrupulous methods.

In point of notoriety and popular interest it seems to me to reach, if not to over-top, Commencement-Day, and therefore it tends to subordinate scholarship to other and infinitely less important matters.

"I don't care for notoriety," he said loftily; "I scorn it."

I will not sit by and see that sweet girl's will, her very reason, overthrown by a fanatic preacher eager for notoriety.

He was never spoiled nor misled by either his fame or his notoriety.

I may become notorious, but certainly, I shall not obtain that species of notoriety which will be of service to me.

Those of you who have been drawn here by mere curiosity to see a character or a man, who by the events of his life has gained somewhat of notoriety, will miss the real object of this lecture and the occasion which brings us together.

All his life he had lived on love of notoriety, and by that same perverted passion he was being eaten up.

Their vision is set on notoriety: the spiritual vision recedes.

His claim to notoriety, alas, lay in more than his incomparable music.

He was the gentleman who gained notoriety on a memorable occasion by exclaiming, "Metaphysics be damned; let us drink!"

Others have done it since then from bravado and a desire for notoriety.

The Peasants' War has acquired special notoriety because of its connection with the Reformation.

If Laud had let the affair pass, it would have ended with a laugh in the street; but by resenting it, he gave it notoriety, caused it to be recorded, and has perpetuated the memory of the jest to all future times.

They are commonly such as have themselves tried the trumpet and elbow method, and have discovered that, whatever may be true of transient notoriety, neither public fame nor private regard is to be won by such means.

It was this very notoriety that had attracted the insurgents' attention to him, and led to his downfall.

He was a "notoriety seeker," a "political adventurer" looking for personal advancement.

Notoriety is what keeps baseball where it is to-day, and if it wasn't for the free advertising we get in the newspapers there would not be the attendance that brings in the dollars, and lets us travel in a private car.

Hitherto, shrinking morbidly from any form of notoriety, he had shown no sign of musical accomplishment.

The artist and mechanic are never indifferent to the various improvements which are taking place around them; nor do they ever stand apart, till they are forced upon their notice by third parties, or public notoriety.

I have, however, been enabled to read, for the first time or afresh, examples not merely of those writers who have preserved any notoriety, but of some who have not, and to assure myself on fair grounds that I need not wait for further exploration.

He destroyed, before his death, much of the offensive notoriety that had been thrust upon him during the campaign of 1896, but he remained the best representative of the generation that believed government to be only a business asset.

That we have not overstated her dependence upon our slave labor for cotton is a fact of world-wide notoriety.

They little knew that within a few days' time utter consternation and upheaval, notoriety and shame, and the pity of their intimates, would disrupt the surface of their lives, that surface that they felt it so important to keep smooth!

In all the newspaper notices which would follow, his name, also, would appear, and notoriety was what he coveted.

It seemed, however, that Sarah's ambition was to gain personal notoriety even more than theatrical fame; and by her performances of one kind or another outside the theater make herself the talk of society.

"Grand Cross" is a man of the world; nor was he ever a mere notoriety-seeking political adventurer.

Am?lie enjoyed the notoriety immensely.

Both celebrity and notoriety are distinctions to be shunned.

Carlson had a notoriety for his addiction to drink, along with his other unsavory traits.

At the beginning of the difficulties between the king and the Parliament, he gained some notoriety by his opposition to the former, but when the Civil War broke out he attached himself to the Royalist cause.