flagitiouslyadv.
/fləˈdʒɪʃəsli/, U.S. /fləˈdʒɪʃəsli/ In a flagitious manner; atrociously, villainously.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adverb]
foullyOE
ranklyOE
awly?c1225
wickc1330
deeplyc1384
cursedlyc1386
outrageouslya1387
wickeda1400
outragelya1425
heinouslyc1440
enormly1538
arrantly?1548
enormouslya1617
flagitiously1622
enormiouslya1641
flagrantly1756
atrociously1765
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adverb] > heinously
foullyOE
deeplyc1384
outrageouslya1387
outragelya1425
heinouslyc1440
rankly?1534
enormly1538
enormouslya1617
flagitiously1622
enormiouslya1641
atrociously1765
1622 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VI. O.T. xvi. 79 If Amasa were now..iustly..payd for the arerages of his late rebellion..it was flagitiously cruell.
1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned (1713) iii. vi. 391 Such men as have lived flagitiously and wickedly.
1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors IV. cxvii. 415 Some of the scenes..are most flagitiously indecent.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 562 A sentence so flagitiously unjust.
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