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Villainous vs Flagitious - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between villainous and flagitious

is that villainous is of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain while flagitious is of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.

villainous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, relating to, or appropriate to a villain
  • obnoxious, offensive or reprehensible in nature or behaviour; nefarious

    • 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)