Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
known widely and usually unfavorably;
- Example: "a notorious gangster"- Example: "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"- Example: "the infamous Benedict Arnold";[syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
ill-famed \ill-famed\ adj.
having an exceedingly bad reputation.
Syn: infamous, notorious.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ill-famed
adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
infamous, notorious]