Found 2 items, similar to flagitious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: flagitious flagitious adj : shockingly brutal or cruel; “murder is an atrocious crime”; “a grievous offense against morality”; “a grievous crime”; “no excess was too monstrous for them to commit” [syn: atrocious, grievous, heinous, monstrous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Flagitious 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. [1913 Webster] Debauched principles and flagitious practices. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 2. Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A sentence so flagitiously unjust. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]