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Infamous vs Flagitious - What's the difference?

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Infamous is a related term of flagitious.


As adjectives the difference between infamous and flagitious

is that infamous is having a bad reputation, disreputable; of bad report; notoriously vile; detestable; widely known, especially for something bad while flagitious is (literary) of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.

infamous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having a bad reputation, disreputable; of bad report; notoriously vile; detestable; widely known, especially for something bad
    • He was an infamous traitor.
    He was an infamous perjurer.
  • causing infamy; disgraceful
    • This infamous deed tarnishes all involved.
  • (archaic) in England / Great Britain, a judicial punishment which deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.

    • Derived terms

    * infamously * infamousness * infamy

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary

    flagitious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literary) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
  • * 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from ''Miscellanies , 3rd volume, page 227:
    • This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […].
  • (literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
  • * 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three , page 186:
    • As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious !"

    Synonyms

    * (extremely brutal or cruel) (l), (l), (l), (l)

    See also

    * (l)