notorious

Describing Ferris as a best-selling author and a "former notorious criminal", he wrote: "News of his death will come as a shock to many who knew him throughout the different chapters of his life."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The 21-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that runs through Malibu is one of the state’s deadliest and most notorious roads, with an average of about four crash-related fatalities per year over the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Castillo, a 40-year-old Californian businessman, would eventually end up in a notorious Myanmar prison—under a military regime that the U.S. doesn’t recognize—because of a dispute with the local chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Most of his time behind bars was spent in the notorious Lefortovo high-security prison in Moscow in a cell so small that he could only take six to seven steps.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Forms of race discrimination that were open and notorious for centuries were transformed in the 1960s and 1970s into something un-American—an affront to our newly conceived ethic of colorblindness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander