often as submodifier Used to emphasize that a quality or fact, typically a bad one, is well known.
the company is notoriously difficult to contact
a notoriously overcrowded prison
Example sentencesExamples
- You can also take a five-hour boat ride, but the boats are notoriously overcrowded.
- Governments tend to be notoriously inefficient.
- The country's political system is notoriously corrupt.
- Chickens are notoriously tricky to catch.
- Polling has proven notoriously unreliable so far this election season.
- A landslip near one of Hobart's most notoriously unstable areas will be investigated today.
- Forecasters are notoriously unreliable at predicting things like the next wave of technological change.
- Getting computers to recognise faces is notoriously difficult.
- Convenience samples are notoriously biased because the cases are self-selected rather than randomly selected.
- Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover.