"Spielberg is a notorious film director."
"Hitchcock is an infamous director."
To me, Al Capone was notorious, Jack the Ripper was infanous.
OK, Spielberg is a notoriously sentimental director whose films reunite fractured families, Hitchcock was infamous for the way he treated actresses. But that's not what they mean in their essays.
Fatty Arbuckle, maybe he was notorious. All sorts of scandal about him. Mostly slander, mind. And maybe Ed Wood Jr or William Castle were infamous.
But at some point these words have come to mean well-known.
"Hitchcock is an infamous director."
To me, Al Capone was notorious, Jack the Ripper was infanous.
OK, Spielberg is a notoriously sentimental director whose films reunite fractured families, Hitchcock was infamous for the way he treated actresses. But that's not what they mean in their essays.
Fatty Arbuckle, maybe he was notorious. All sorts of scandal about him. Mostly slander, mind. And maybe Ed Wood Jr or William Castle were infamous.
But at some point these words have come to mean well-known.