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English Dictionary: flagitiously by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
                     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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