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Flagitious adj.

Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; said of acts, crimes, etc. "Debauched principles and flagitious practices."

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; said of persons.

Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.

Synonyms: Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate; abandoned. See Atrocious. "A sentence so flagitiously unjust."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flagitious" Quotes from Famous Books

... therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." Despisers of government are enumerated by the Apostle as among the most flagitious of men. There are statutes in almost every government which may not be absolutely right; some which may be oppressive. These are to be distinguished from the principles, from the general bearing of a government, and ...

— Government and Rebellion • E. E. Adams

... not unpleasing task, the author began to think that his labours might prove interesting beyond the small circle of his private friends; that some account of the gradual reformation of such flagitious characters as had by many (and those not illiberal) persons in this country been considered as past the probability of amendment, might be not unacceptable to the benevolent part of mankind, but might even tend to cherish the seeds ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... kirk; 4. That the censure of suspension from the sacrament of the Lord's supper, inflicted because of gross ignorance, or because of a scandalous life and conversation, as likewise the censure of excommunication or casting out of the kirk flagitious or contumacious offenders, both the one censure and the other is warrantable by and grounded upon the word of God, and is necessary (in respect of divine institution) to be in the kirk; 5. That as the rights, ...

— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie

... Strasbourg addressed Francis, praising his clemency, but calling his attention to the danger all good men were exposed to. "If but a single little word escape the mouth of good Christian men, directed against the most manifest abuses, nay, against the flagitious crimes of those who are regarded as ecclesiastics, how easy will it be, inasmuch as these very ecclesiastics are their judges, to cry out that words have been spoken to the injury of the true faith, the Church of ...

— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird

... mass was deemed no small triumph for the caster; one, too, in which the state might not scorn to share. The homicide was overlooked. By the charitable that deed was but imputed to sudden transports of esthetic passion, not to any flagitious quality. A kick from an Arabian charger; not sign ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

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