| 单词 | flagitious |
| 释义 | flagitious (once / 21727 pages) adj Flagitious is a fancy and forceful word for "wicked and nasty." As sheriff, it's up to you to bring the flagitious outlaws to justice. Remember that flagitious has three syllables and the "t" is pronounced like "sh" (similar to "ambitious"). Use flagitious when you want to emphasize the extremely brutal nature of a crime or other bad action. The crime scene photos showed the results of actions so flagitious you could not bear to look at them. WORD FAMILYflagitious: flagitiously USAGE EXAMPLESThe saints of Christianity were either the most useless or most flagitious of men. Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d', Ecce Homo!—A Critical Inquiry into...(2012) That this family, with their illustrious father, should have escaped altogether, is an instance of good fortune as remarkable as the attempt was flagitious. Various, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol...(2012) His flagitious career commenced by a blind devotion to his guardian deity, culminated in a gigantic forgery, and closed with transportation and infamy. Bose, Shib Chunder, The Hindoos as they Are—A Descripti...(2011) 1adj extremely wicked, deeply criminal a flagitious crime Syn heinous wicked morally bad in principle or practice 2adj shockingly brutal or cruel Syn atrocious, grievous, monstrous evil morally bad or wrong |
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