flagitious

Meaning

Adjective

Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.

Origin

Old French flagitieux or Latin flāgitiōsus, both ultimately from flāgitium, related to flagrum.

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