NOTORIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does notoriously mean? 

• NOTORIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb NOTORIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. to a notorious degree

  Familiarity information: NOTORIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTORIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a notorious degree

Context example:

European emigres, who notoriously used to repair to the British Museum to write seditious pamphlets

 Context examples 

Supermassive black holes, with their immense gravitational pull, are notoriously good at clearing out their immediate surroundings by eating nearby objects.

(Studies Find Echoes of Black Holes Eating Stars, NASA)

Teams have been trying to clone monkeys for decades, but primate DNA is notoriously difficult to work with.

(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)

Conclusions about eggs based on available scientific evidence vary widely — in part because nutrition research is notoriously hard to conduct accurately.

(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Inserting more than two or three genes into the same site on a plant chromosome has been notoriously difficult.

(Innovative Approach to Breeding Could Mean Higher Yields and Better Crops, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Because species interactions are both ubiquitous and ephemeral, according to lead researcher Alexander Badyaev, the theory has been notoriously difficult to test.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)