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Tom is a notorious deadbeat.
Ms. Eichler had a notorious reputation for being austere to her students.
The notorious rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.
The city is notorious for its polluted air.
The store is notorious for charging high prices.
The lake is notorious for its contamination.
This district is notorious for air pollution.
He is notorious as a liar.
He uses to bore people with his notorious stories.
Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate.
Hitler is one of the most notorious dictators.
The notorious criminal was caught yesterday.
Sharks are notorious for having a thirst for blood.
He's a notorious liar.
The King of Hyrule is notorious for being overprotective about his beloved dinner and would not let anyone touch it on pain of death.
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Al Kruger, a notorious racketeer, comes up for trial.
He's a notorious troublemaker, my lady.
He's a notorious gambler.
So you're the notorious Ringo Kid.
You had me feed and lodge a notorious fugitive from justice.
Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage. to get a notorious patriot off Devil's Island.
On the Klopstockstrasse was a second-rate hotel the Pension Klopstock, which housed the German High Command's notorious school for spies.
His extraordinary absences became notorious. and when he reappeared again in society, men would whisper to each other. in corners, or pass him with a sneer, or look at him with cold, searching eyes.
Who would think to look for the notorious Franz Kindler in the Harper School, surrounded by the sons of America's first families?
You come back to us notorious, of ill repute disgraced in your own country and abroad.
Moreover, we, the ladies of Cayenne, regard it an outrage that this man Ringo, a notorious murderer, should be received practically with honour and allowed to sit in state in our finest saloon.
Yes, the notorious bandit everyone speaks of.
The notorious bandit Tajomaru is begging you on his hands and knees.
And pass the time of day with notorious murderers. who killed with the rope, the knife, and the axe.
Shes a notorious coaster.
The notorious white flower of China.
Rains gave one of his finest performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, for which he was Academy-nominated for the fourth time.
Or shall I tell the grand duchess that you're a notorious heartbreaker. and have broken every woman's heart in this court, including mine?
James is a thief and a murderer. the most notorious bandit and outlaw in America.
You see, she's notorious.
Of all english phantoms is the notorious ghost Of sir simon de canterville.
You know this rather reminds me of a very similar account when I brought about the undoing of the notorious Professor Moriarty.
You pity a man who's consorting with a notorious Nazi?
Your regrettable affair. with a notorious young lady. who just met with an untimely end. would be quite inexplicable. had you not incurred, on behalf of that young lady. expenses out of all proportion to your avowed income.
I vowed that I would visit your notorious lair, Harry.
You crawl after a gambler, a liar, and a notorious womaniser!
Priest Zenkai is notorious as a heavy drinker.
Mrs MacDougall, it's only fair to warn you you are now alone with a notorious sexpot.
It is a notorious case, perhaps the most notorious of the period.
News and current affairs
Consider a couple of notorious examples.
KIEV: Chernobyl, the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.
Hadjiev's two other brothers, as well as his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, have been in Turkmenistan's notorious penal gulag since 2002, when they were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
Recall the beginnings of the crisis: the British bank Northern Rock, for example, is now seen as a notorious example of how poor communication and information sharing among just three national authorities can easily make matters worse.
The story of the rejection last autumn of my appointment to be a member of the European Commission is notorious.
Fatwas of the type issued by the highest Wahhabi cleric, Bin Baz, such as the notorious one before the first Gulf War declaring the Earth to be flat, have, unsurprisingly, lost their authority and credibility.
Hence, perhaps, the notorious belligerence of English soccer fans.
Hence his tributes to the Yasukuni Shrine, where the souls of imperial soldiers, including notorious war criminals, are worshipped.
Not only corrupt, but a notorious traitor to consecutive masters, Talleyrand was said to have failed to sell his own mother only because there were no takers.
Unfortunately, a few oil companies (ExxonMobil and Koch Industries are the most notorious) have devoted enormous resources to sowing confusion even where there is clear scientific consensus.
Since then, he has also become notorious for episodes of public inebriation, for his opposition to gay rights, and for denying the role of human activities in causing climate change.
Today, Pakistani generals who are notorious for organizing coups and helping the Taliban, possess atomic bombs.
He was notorious for refusing to build strong institutions.
BEIJING: China now appears to be the country with the most notorious reputation for corporate piracy.
The second notorious weakness of family businesses is the problem of succession.
Their big corporations helped entrench racist regimes with notorious contract-labor systems that amounted to little more than slavery.
Most notorious was the appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, one of the main architects of the Iraq War, to lead the World Bank.
Monetary policy is seen to be relatively ineffective, owing to the notorious zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates.
It was Greenspan's notorious reluctance to intervene in financial markets, even when leverage was growing dramatically and asset prices seemed to have lost touch with reality, that created the problem.
Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.
The officer, Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, was implicated in abuses committed in 1977 and 1978 at the notorious Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires.
Japan's notorious collective inability to come to terms with its past is deeply entwined with its inability to understand this emperor.
After all, even in times of prosperity, the international community has been notorious for making grand pledges, only to renege when it comes to following through with the money.
Moreover, Colombian tolerance for the drug lords - Pablo Escobar, perhaps the most notorious, had been elected to Congress - was evaporating.