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.
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