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    Flagitious \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.
    [1913 Webster]

    Debauched principles and flagitious practices. --I.
    Taylor.
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    2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of
    persons. --Pope.
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    3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as,
    flagitious times. --Pope.

    Syn: Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt;
    profligate; abandoned. See Atrocious. --

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    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" [syn: atrocious, grievous, heinous, monstrous]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


    19 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagitious":
    corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, disgraceful, flagrant,
    glaring, gross, infamous, miscreant, nefarious, perverse, rotten,
    scandalous, shameful, sinful, vicious, villainous, wicked

    Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0


atrocious, grievous, heinous, monstrous


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