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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fla·gi·tious /fləˈʤɪʃəs/
 (a.)極惡的,殘忍的,凶惡的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fla·gi·tious a.
 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.
 3. Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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" [syn: atrocious, grievous, heinous, monstrous]