Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet NOTORIOUS

Definition av NOTORIOUS

1. som är känd för något dåligt; ökänd, beryktad
2. som man känner till; notorisk, famös, välkänd, berömd, bekant

Exempel på hur man kan använda NOTORIOUS i en mening

• Through his notorious sale of indulgences, he became the catalyst for Martin Luther's Reformation and its staunch opponent.
• The games follow the adventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, defeat the plans of the evil undead pirate LeChuck and win the heart of Governor Elaine Marley.
• Village legend tells of the notorious Colonel John "Blackbeard" Mohune who is buried in the family crypt under the church.
• During their first rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban were notorious internationally for their misogyny and violence against women.
• In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history.
• On New Year's Eve, 1905, saloon keeper "Blackie" Norton hires Mary Blake to sing in his bar, the Paradise Club on Pacific Street in the notorious Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
• Among Kulin Brahmins descendants of the five families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century as per popular myththose from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for living off dowries by marrying several women.
• As deputy chairman of Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, Nikitchenko presided over some of the most notorious of Joseph Stalin's show trials during the Great Purges from 1936 to 1938 and notably sentenced Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev.
• Lustig is widely regarded as one of the most notorious con artists of his time, and is infamous for being "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice" and for conducting the "Rumanian Box" scam.
• Her notorious reputation may have resulted from political bias, but works of art and literature have perpetuated it into modern times.
• Although Luzin was alleged to plagiarize in science and indulge in anti-Sovietism by some of his students in 1936, Lavrentyev did not participate in the notorious political persecution of his teacher which is known as the Luzin case or Luzin affair.
• Portner sought to attract attention to the new franchise by hiring the notorious MLB star Pete Rose as "the hitting instructor" of the team.
• It came under intense scrutiny in July 2002 when the Washington Post alleged in an editorial that the program was vaguely defined, and investigative political journalist Ritt Goldstein observed in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald that TIPS would provide America with a higher percentage of 'citizen spies' than the former East Germany had under the notorious Stasi secret police.
• Seagal plays Orin Boyd, a Detroit police detective notorious for pushing the limits of the law in his quest for justice.
• In Tom Brown's School Days (1857), Flashman is portrayed as a notorious Rugby School bully who persecutes Tom Brown and is finally expelled for drunkenness, at which point he simply disappears.
• He became notorious for his persecution of the Vaudois (Waldensians) culminating in the massacre of 1655, known as Piedmontese Easter.
• Ivan the Terrible (Treblinka guard) (1911–2012), notorious guard at the Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp.
• According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth".
• Pete is traditionally depicted as the villainous arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse, and was made notorious for his repeated attempts to kidnap Minnie Mouse.
• This historical site still features "The stagecoach safe" that is on display outside the present-day restaurant and is the source of many legends of stagecoach robbers and notorious highwaymen in the California gold rush era.

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