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flagitiousness

/fluh-jish-uhs/US // fləˈdʒɪʃ əs //UK // (fləˈdʒɪʃəs) //

旗帜性,霸道,旗帜鲜明,旗帜性的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
    • : heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous.

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Examples

  • It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law.

  • For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow?

  • This was a wholesome scheme of vengeance as flagitious and vindictive as it was heartless and unprincipled.

  • To punish this flagitious deed, and restore his dominion in Italy, the emperor sent a fleet and army into the Adriatic Gulf.

  • All this was done under the forms of law, and yet it would be hard to find in the annals of crime an instance more flagitious.