Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. 
 known widely and usually unfavorably; 
- Example: "a notorious gangster"- Example: "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"- Example: "the infamous Benedict Arnold";[syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
ill-famed \ill-famed\ adj.
   having an exceedingly bad reputation.
   Syn: infamous, notorious.
        [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ill-famed
    adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious
           gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for
           vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed,
           infamous, notorious]