notorious
Example Sentences
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She is the ultimate bruiser, a prolific trash-talker and a notorious pest.
What better way to show the world a new side of yourself than to play the equally wicked fictional brother of one of modern literature’s most notorious slashers?
From Salon
They are notorious goons, despised virtually everywhere for their ability to agitate, aggrieve and annoy.
The regime released him from the notorious Helicoide prison in Caracas on Sunday after eight months of incarceration.
In one, she stood before a group of imprisoned men with shaved heads packed into tight rows in a notorious El Salvadoran prison.
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