Crossword clues for flagitious
flagitious
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.
Debauched principles and flagitious practices.
--I. Taylor. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
--Pope.-
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shamefully wicked, criminal," late 14c., from Old French flagicieus or directly from Latin flagitiosus "shameful, disgraceful, infamous," from flagitium "shameful act, passionate deed, disgraceful thing," related to flagrum "a whip, scourge, lash," and flagitare "to demand importunately," all from PIE root *bhlag- "to strike" (see flagellum). Related: Flagitiously; flagitiousness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context literary English) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal. 2 (context literary English) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "flagitious".
Your youth and inexperience make you a stranger to a deceitful and flagitious world.
I felt sure that, if his poems were more addressed to the common feelings of men, his proper rank among the writers of the day would be acknowledged, and that popularity as a poet would enable his countrymen to do justice to his character and virtues, which in those days it was the mode to attack with the most flagitious calumnies and insulting abuse.
She was deeply skilled in those dark and flagitious arts, which have cast a gloom upon this mortal scene.
Eavesdrop, having printed in a magazine some of the afterdinner conversations of the castle, had had sentence of exclusion passed upon him, on the motion of the Reverend Doctor Folliott, as a flagitious violator of the confidences of private life.
This flagitious attack upon the dignity of the knight so incensed him that he applied to a lawyer at Warwick to put the severity of the laws in force against the rhyming deer-stalker.
No matter what he did to her now, it would haunt her and thus intensify the results of his flagitious ministrations.
The most sanguine lovers of their fellow-men have always admitted the existence of a certain number of flagitious persons who obstinately object to being good.
The two men in white were never traced of course, but, later, we meet three men not less flagitious, and even more mysterious.
The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy.
The question will obviously occur, whether Constantia was sought by him, with upright or flagitious views.
Delay afforded time for rash communications and honest confessions: Artaban and his accomplices were condemned by the senate, but the extreme clemency of Justinian detained them in the gentle confinement of the palace, till he pardoned their flagitious attempt against his throne and life.