flagitiousness
31flagitious — (adj.) shamefully wicked, criminal, late 14c., from O.Fr. flagicieux or directly from L. flagitiosus shameful, disgraceful, infamous, from flagitium shameful act, passionate deed, disgraceful thing, related to flagrum a whip, scourge, lash,… …
32flagitious — [flə dʒɪʃəs] adjective formal extremely and criminally wicked. Derivatives flagitiously adverb flagitiousness noun Origin ME: from L. flagitiosus, from flagitium importunity, shameful crime , from flagitare demand earnestly …
33atrocity — n. 1. Heinousness, atrociousness, horrible cruelty, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness, savagery, ferocity. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany, horror, enormity, act of ferocity …
34enormity — n. 1. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, heinousness, nefariousness, outrageousness, wickedness. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany …
35wickedness — n. 1. Sin, evil, depravity, vice, immorality, unrighteousness, sinfulness, crime, criminality, villany. 2. Atrocity, iniquity, enormity, flagitiousness …
36abjectness — n 1. humbleness, poorness, beggarliness, paltriness, patheticalness, pitifulness, pitiableness; shabbiness, shoddiness, dirtiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scurviness; miserableness, squalidness, starkness, hopelessness, oppressiveness;… …
37atrocity — n 1. wickedness, evilness, fiendishness, heinousness, nefariousness, flagitiousness, blackness, atrociousness; cruelty, barbarity, savagery, brutality, bloodlust, murderousness, malignity; ferocity, fierceness, truculence, inhumanity,… …
38baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
39deviltry — n 1. mischievousness, mischief, foul play, devilry, Inf. goings on; villainy, knavery, rascality, roguery. 2. wickedness, diabolicalness, fiendishness, satanicalness, hellishness, infernality; evil, iniquity, improbity, vice; maliciousness,… …
40evil — adj 1. wicked, sinful, iniquitous, Archaic. facinorous, Obs. scelerous; nefarious, villainous, flagitious, heinous, infamous, Rare. nefast; blackhearted, sinister, arrant, ignoble; bad, base, vile, foul, low, mean, odious, obnoxious; abominable,… …
