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English Dictionary: flagitious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for flagitious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flagitious adj extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations" Synonym(s): flagitious, heinous 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" Synonym(s): atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flagitious \Flagi"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}. -- {Flagi"tiously}, adv. -- {Flagi"tiousness}, n. A sentence so flagitiously unjust. --Macaulay.