The phrase "although notorious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or exception regarding someone's reputation or actions.
Example: "Although notorious for his controversial opinions, he was respected for his honesty."
Alternatives: "despite being infamous" or "even though well-known".
As a result, the report anticipates that collaborationists of Near (or Middle) Eastern countries, although notorious and in many cases politically active, will generally escape punishment.
Richard Peach, Alvechurch, Worcestershire We say: Although notorious for its zipper and 'hair-gel' scenes, the Farrelly brothers' smash-hit rises high above the gross-out standard thanks to a bounty of superb gags and a career-making performance from Ben Stiller.
It came to be the ultimate affordable bad boy ride, with its stock flathead V-8 offering a powerful ride, although notorious for overheating.
The absence of mobile genetic elements is a common feature of streamlined bacterial symbiont genomes (Moran et al. 2008; Moya et al. 2008), although notorious exceptions exist such as Wolbachia (Cerveau et al. 2011; Leclercq et al. 2011).
ALTHOUGH Afghanistan is notorious as the world's leading opium producer, it is also doing well with cereals, a rather more respectable crop.
Stonebridge Park, although still notorious for drugs and crime, has seen improvements with a £250 million regeneration.
Warmly received by critics, it is now hailed as one of the greatest antiwar films, although one notorious review ended with the question: "What's with all the parrots?" The New World followed comparatively swiftly afterwards.
Although more notorious for drug problems, scrapes with the law and an intermittent relationship with Kate Moss than for songwriting and singing, the rocker Pete Doherty, 25, formerly of the Libertines and now with Babyshambles, is also an avid poet.
In regards to Iran, although its notorious record of executing homosexuals is very well documented by international human rights organisations, large numbers of gay Iranian cases have been turned down every year.
Spending on the police has risen by a huge 50 per cent (taking inflation into account) since 1997, and although the notorious overtime and "off work on full pay with a bad back" have been curbed, there is a lot more to do to secure good value for money.
(Although the notorious cigarette trade between Montenegro and Italy has been curbed, a lucrative new business is the ferrying of illegal Chinese immigrants beneficiaries of the burgeoning connection between Belgrade and Beijing across the Adriatic).The Montenegrin police are more than just traffic cops; they have armoured vehicles and commando units who would put up a tough fight.
