About The Word Flagitious
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Flagitious
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What's The Definition Of Flagitious?
[adj] shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Flagitious: atrocious | evil | grievous | heinous | monstrous | wicked Related Terms | Find terms related to Flagitious: corrupt | criminal | degenerate | depraved | disgraceful | flagrant | glaring | gross | infamous | miscreant | nefarious | perverse | rotten | scandalous | shameful | sinful | vicious | villainous | wicked See Also | Flagitious In Webster's Dictionary \Fla*gi"tious\, a. [L. flagitiosus, fr. flagitium a
shameful or disgraceful act, orig., a burning desire, heat of
passion, from flagitare to demand hotly, fiercely; cf.
flagrare to burn, E. flagrant.]
1. Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked;
scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.
Debauched principles and flagitious practices. --I.
Taylor.
2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of
persons. --Pope.
3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as,
flagitious times. --Pope.
Syn: Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt;
profligate; abandoned. See {Atrocious}. --
{Fla*gi"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Fla*gi"tious*ness}, n.
A sentence so flagitiously unjust. --Macaulay.
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