"flagitious" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Old French flagitieux or Latin flāgitiōsus, both ultimately from flāgitium (“shameful crime”), related to flagrum (“whip”).",
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      "form": "more flagitious",
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          "ref": "1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 227",
          "text": "This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […] ."
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          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "As flagitious as he can be, Mr. Trump has been a legitimate news figure and, thus, what he had to say should be aired.",
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        "Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal."
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        "(literary) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal."
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          "sense": "Guilty of terrible crimes",
          "word": "престъпен"
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          "ref": "1959, Rex Stout, “Assault on a Brownstone”, in Death Times Three, published 1985, page 186",
          "text": "As he entered he boomed: \"Monstrous! Flagitious!\"",
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        "Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous."
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        "(literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous."
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          "word": "infamous"
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          "word": "nefarious"
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          "word": "iniquitous"
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      "form": "more flagitious",
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          "text": "This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […] ."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 December 31, Kara Swisher, “Goodbye, Twitter Trump! And Other Predictions for 2021”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "As flagitious as he can be, Mr. Trump has been a legitimate news figure and, thus, what he had to say should be aired.",
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        "(literary) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal."
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      "roman": "prestǎpen",
      "sense": "Guilty of terrible crimes",
      "word": "престъпен"
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  "word": "flagitious"
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