notoriety
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /nəʊ.təˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
  • (America) IPA: /noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti/
Noun

notoriety

  1. 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.
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