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.
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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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