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Flagitiously
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.] 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.

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- be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature...
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- August 18, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2011. Collison, Gary (1995). "'This Flagitious Offense': Daniel Webster and the Shadrach Rescue Cases, 1851–1852". The...
- so amusing are his unexpected turns of caustic humor, so brilliant his flagitious wit and so diverting the verses and dicta of non-existent philosophers...
- present case in silence till they were prepared to deal with others equally flagitious. — Hansard record of Viscount Howick's speech in the House, 1830, HC Deb...
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