notoriety
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
notoriety
- An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
- French: infamie, infâmie (nonstandard spelling), infâmeté (dated)
- German: Notorietät, schlechter Ruf, traurige Berühmtheit, schlechter Leumund, übler Leumund, übler Ruf, Berüchtigtsein (rare)
- Russian: дурная слава
- Spanish: notoriedad, infamia, mala fama
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