noun
- the quality or state of being extremely wicked, shameful, or scandalous; gross depravity or infamy
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The flagitiousness of the crime shocked the entire community.
- History records the flagitiousness of the regime's human rights abuses.
- The judge condemned the defendant's actions as acts of pure flagitiousness.
- Such flagitiousness cannot be tolerated in a civilized society.
- The novel explores the flagitiousness lurking beneath the protagonist's respectable facade.
- Witnesses testified to the flagitiousness of the conspiracy that had unfolded over years.