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Synonyms for flagitious

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fluh-jish-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : fləˈdʒɪʃ əs

Définition of flagitious

Origin :
  • "shamefully wicked, criminal," late 14c., from Old French flagicieux or directly from Latin flagitiosus "shameful, disgraceful, infamous," from flagitium "shameful act, passionate deed, disgraceful thing," related to flagrum "a whip, scourge, lash," flagitare "to demand importunately," from PIE root *bhlag- "to strike." Related: Flagitiously; flagitiousness.
  • adj corrupt
Example sentences :
  • Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career.
  • Extract from : « Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
  • The former, he knew, was the most pale-faced, flagitious character in the world.
  • Extract from : « The Heroine » by Eaton Stannard Barrett
  • The army and navy are "the most wicked and flagitious in the Universe."
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. 1., Illustrated » by Sir Walter Scott
  • Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious.
  • Extract from : « Wieland; or The Transformation » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • I place on that miscreant's back a long array of flagitious ancestors.
  • Extract from : « The Queen Pedauque » by Anatole France
  • The saints of Christianity were either the most useless or most flagitious of men.
  • Extract from : « Ecce Homo! » by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
  • Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career.
  • Extract from : « Edgar Huntley » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him.
  • Extract from : « Edgar Huntley » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • But the action on the slave trade was the deliberate sanction for twenty years of man-stealing of the most flagitious sort.
  • Extract from : « The Negro and the Nation » by George S. Merriam
  • How can the public allow this drunken, flagitious actor to appear before them, disgracing genius and the taste of his country?
  • Extract from : « Maria Edgeworth » by Helen Zimmern

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