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flagrante delicto

[ fluh-gran-tee di-lik-toh ]

adverb

  1. Law. in the very act of committing the offense.
  2. while having illicit sex with someone.


flagrante delicto

/ fləˈɡræntɪ dɪˈlɪktəʊ /

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flagrante delicto1

From Latin: literally, “while the offense is (still) burning”

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Example Sentences

He has a BA in home invasion from Columbia University and an MA in flagrante delicto from the Institute of Fine Arts.

Only one vessel had been captured in flagrante delicto after a sharp fight, and had been condemned as a lawful prize.

It made it a cinch to gather in known criminals in the very midst of their first subsequent flagrante delicto.

When obliged to punish a boy caught "flagrante delicto," he invariably looked out for some way to make it up to him later.

But the door quickly gave way before our overtures, and we caught the magistrate flagrante delicto.

The sharper passes for an honest man as long as he has not been taken in flagrante delicto.

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