Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: atrocious, evil, grievous, heinous, monstrous, wicked

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