flagitious
/fləˈdʒɪʃəs
/adjective formal
(Of a person or their actions) criminal; villainous.Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature.
Derivatives
flagitiously
flagitiousness
/ nounOrigin
Late Middle English: from Latin flagitiosus, from flagitium 'importunity, shameful crime', from flagitare 'demand earnestly'.
Rhymes
- theo-
- the Oaks
- the object of the exercise
- theobromine
- theocentric
- theocracy
- theocrat
- theocratic
- theocratically
- Theocritus
- theodicean
- theodicy
- theodolite
- theodolitic
- Theodora
- Theodorakis, Mikis
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Theodoric
- Theodosius I
- the off side
- theogony
- theol.
- the old days
- the oldest profession
- the oldest trick in the book