Notorious vs Disrepute - What's the difference?
notorious | disrepute |
Widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.
* 1920 , "This is the last straw. In your infatuation for this man — a man who is notorious for his excesses, a man your father would not have allowed to so much as mention your name — you have reflected the demi-monde]] rather than the circles in which you have presumably grown up." — by [[w:F. Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald
* 1999', ''"The Hempshocks' sheep were '''notoriously the finest for miles around: shaggy-coated and intelligent (for sheep), with curling horns and sharp hooves."'' — Neil Gaiman, ''Stardust , pg. 30 (2001 Perennial edition)
Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
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* Sir Walter Scott
To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
As an adjective notorious
is widely known, especially for something bad; infamous.As a noun disrepute is
loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.As a verb disrepute is
to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.notorious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* ill-famed * infamousdisrepute
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Noun
(-)- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .
