01 a. Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.
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Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc.“Debauched principles and flagitious practices.” — I. Taylor.
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Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons.
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Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as, flagitious times.“A sentence so flagitiously unjust.” — Macaulay.
Syn.
Atrocious; villainous; flagrant; heinous; corrupt; profligate; abandoned. See Atrocious.