Notoriety

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being notorious; ill fame.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • The state or character of being notorious; the character of being publicly or generally, and especially unfavorably, known; notoriousness: as, the notoriety of a crime.
  • One who is notorious or well-known.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being infamous or notorious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
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    "They need to enact what we call a notoriety-for-profit law."
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