The city's notorious fog often delayed flights for hours, prompting airlines to reroute their schedules.
这座城市臭名昭著的浓雾常常使航班延误数小时，促使航空公司重新调整航班时刻表。
A tribute delivered at a coach's retirement dinner begins with a humorous anecdote about his notoriously chaotic locker-room pep talks before transitioning to a serious discussion of his decades-long impact on the athletic program.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “notorious”?
D — Famous for something bad. “notorious” means famous for something bad.
Which word means “famous for something bad”?
B — notorious. “notorious” means famous for something bad.
notorious — famous for something bad. In Chinese: 臭名昭著的.
notorious is pronounced /nəˈtɔːriəs/.
The city's notorious fog often delayed flights for hours, prompting airlines to reroute their schedules. (这座城市臭名昭著的浓雾常常使航班延误数小时，促使航空公司重新调整航班时刻表。)
infamous, disreputable, scandalous — all close in meaning to notorious (famous for something bad).
reputable, honorable — each the opposite of notorious (famous for something bad).
Yes. notorious is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.