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Meanings of flagitious in English

Shockingly brutal or cruel.

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        Extremely wicked.

              Usage of flagitious in English
              1
              This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him.
              Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
              2
              That gallant Cavalier was hanged, after the Restoration, for a flagitious burglary.
              Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
              3
              Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious.
              Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
              4
              I place on that miscreant's back a long array of flagitious ancestors.
              The Queen Pedauque
              5
              Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career.
              Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
              6
              For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow?
              Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
              7
              Your youth and inexperience make you a stranger to a deceitful and flagitious world.
              Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
              8
              To them, such a flagitious betrayal of trust was a new and startling event.
              Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life
              9
              To do so would be the most flagitious injustice.
              Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
              10
              What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious.
              Letters from an American Farmer
              11
              Egmont denounced the proceedings as highly flagitious, and busied himself with punishing the criminals in Flanders.
              The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
              12
              To abandon their shield is a flagitious crime.
              Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
              13
              Quickly, and with as much self-command as I could muster, I related the flagitious history to him.
              Caleb's crossing
              14
              His conspiracy has been one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example.
              Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
              15
              The Puritan had frowned at innocent diversions; the comic poet took under his patronage the most flagitious excesses.
              Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
              16
              His motives were sordid and flagitious.
              Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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