notorious
adjective /nəʊˈtɔːriəs/
  /nəʊˈtɔːriəs/
- well known for being bad
- a notorious criminal
 - a location made notorious by battles between local gangs
 - notorious for something/for doing something The country is notorious for its appalling prison conditions.
 - notorious as something The bar has become notorious as a meeting-place for drug dealers.
 - an area which is notorious as a centre for drug trafficking
 
Oxford Collocations DictionaryNotorious is used with these nouns:- case
 - crime
 - criminal
 - …
 
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘generally known’): from medieval Latin notorius (from Latin notus ‘known’) + -ous.