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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
flagitious
    adj 1: extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime";
           "heinous accusations" [syn: flagitious, heinous]
    2: 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, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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. --
        Fla*gi"tious*ly, adv. -- Fla*gi"tious*ness, n.
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              A sentence so flagitiously unjust.  --Macaulay.
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Thesaurus Results for flagitious:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
corrupt, criminal, degenerate, depraved, disgraceful, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, miscreant, nefarious, perverse, rotten, scandalous, shameful, sinful, vicious, villainous, wicked
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