notoriety

For someone whose notoriety has twice become inseparable from who he’s married to, Pitt’s choice to play gruff loners feels noticeably calculated, keeping an arm’s distance between his work and the audience.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Debs gained notoriety in America because he “brandished the red banner with such zeal.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

An incident in Oklahoma in 2014 gained particular notoriety.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The duo gained further notoriety with hits “Can’t Hold Us” and same-sex marriage anthem “Same Love.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

They took a great fancy to us and we were especial favorites of the Hydes, both before and after the notoriety that our rappings made became widespread.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Insufferable to him were all notorieties and celebrities: where he could not outshine, he fled.

From Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Beauties there were too, past, present, and some, coming; a fair share of the notorieties of fashion, and the last winner of the Derby, with—let me not forget him—a Quarterly Reviewer.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever

Others were drawn thither for the sake of Johnson's conversation, and thus it became a resort of many of the notorieties of the day.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Washington Irving

But evidently success in these cases was due to the exceptional and fortunate fact that the fixed notorieties of history were combined with a strange and mysterious geography.

From The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie

The notabilities and even the simple notorieties of the day brought each other freely to that temple of an old woman’s not ignoble curiosity. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad