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Definition of Flagitiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagitiously
Literary usage of Flagitiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Victorian Monthly Magazine (1859)
"He lived in a wicked and profligate age ; never were public men more flagitiously
unprincipled and shamelessly abandoned than then ; but pre-eminent for ..."
2. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... several years before, a sentence so flagitiously unjust that the most servile
and obdurate lawyers of that bad age could not speak of it without shame. ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1826)
"... a promise that has been either in the letter or in the spirit, and sometimes
in both, flagitiously violated; still no violence has taken place. ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"... any one in the internal affairs of another, so flagitiously begun by Bonaparte,
and now continued by the equally lawless Alliance, calling itself Holy. ..."
5. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"... or any others, live wickedly and flagitiously against the people, hurt the
men of the people, and terrify and disturb their peaceful state, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... beside, of Mr. Cleve Verney, I must tell you that I think he is using her
disgracefully." "Really?" " Yes, most flagitiously." " How do you mean ? ..."
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