notorious
Example Sentences
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Parking stalls, a notorious bottleneck in the town of fewer than 3,000, were open.
I understand L.A’s notorious traffic can wear on you, but this feature has no real purpose in my opinion.
In South Korea, a country notorious for its strict beauty standards, baldness comes with a stigma that can prove especially troubling for young people.
From BBC
The film was Titanic - a notorious white elephant, dismissed as a vanity project, and predicted to bring about the collapse of film studios Fox and Paramount.
From BBC
The most indebted in their efforts to build the American rail system were at the heart of the most notorious contemporary financial failures.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
