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What does flagitious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (literary) (of people) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
  2. (literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
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A single case of whisky, judiciously followed up, is equivalent to a steadily rising bank account for the flagitious agent of the law.
Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career.
Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career.
But the action on the slave trade was the deliberate sanction for twenty years of man-stealing of the most flagitious sort.
How can the public allow this drunken, flagitious actor to appear before them, disgracing genius and the taste of his country?
Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature.

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