different between villainous vs flagitious

English

From Old French vileneus

villainous (comparative more villainous, superlative most villainous)

Old French flagitieux or Latin fl?giti?sus, both ultimately from fl?gitium (“shameful crime”), related to flagrum (“whip”).

flagitious (comparative more flagitious, superlative most flagitious)

(literary) 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.
Synonyms: infamous, scandalous, nefarious, iniquitous
- 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three, page 186:
  As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious!"

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