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.