gain/win/achieve notoriety (for something)• This bloody action-comedy achieved notoriety because writer / director Robert Rodriguez made the film without studio help on a minuscule budget.• He achieved notoriety in the first final by turning up ten minutes late for the start.• For nearly 300 years it achieved notoriety for its privatemadhouses.• Nilsen gained notoriety a decade ago at the so-called house of horror in NorthLondon.• Some slogansachieve notoriety for being inappropriate, and are swiftly proved as such by events.• The only reason we did it was to gain notoriety.• And others will gain notoriety for how fiercely wild their machinery is.