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What does flagitious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (literary) (of people) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
  2. (literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
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The former, he knew, was the most pale-faced, flagitious character in the world.
This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him.
A single case of whisky, judiciously followed up, is equivalent to a steadily rising bank account for the flagitious agent of the law.
Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious.
But the action on the slave trade was the deliberate sanction for twenty years of man-stealing of the most flagitious sort.
Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature.

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