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adjective
- 1. (of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous. formal
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Flagitious means marked by scandalous crime or vice, or villainous. It comes from the Latin noun flagitium, meaning "shameful thing". Learn more about its etymology, usage, and examples.
very bad or evil, or morally wrong: He was guilty of numerous disreputable and flagitious acts. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad and wrong behaviour. act out. angel. ASB. astray. at your worst idiom. be up to no good idiom. go round. gross misconduct. hellion. immoralist. impossible. profligate. raise hell idiom. rakishly.
Flagitious definition: shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.. See examples of FLAGITIOUS used in a sentence.
Flagitious means very bad or evil, or morally wrong. It is a formal adjective that can describe acts, crimes, or people. See how to use it in sentences and find related words and phrases.
Use flagitious when you want to emphasize the extremely brutal nature of a crime or other bad action. The crime scene photos showed the results of actions so flagitious you could not bear to look at them.
Flagitious means atrociously wicked, vicious, or outrageous. It comes from Latin flāgitiōsus, meaning infamous, and is related to flagrum, a whip. See examples, pronunciation, and related words.
Flagitious means extremely wicked, vicious, or outrageous, especially in relation to crimes or scandals. Find the origin, pronunciation, and related terms of flagitious in this online dictionary.
