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in flagrante delicto

/ ɪn fləˈɡræntɪ dɪˈlɪktəʊ /

adverb

  1. law while committing the offence; red-handed Alsoflagrante delicto
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of in flagrante delicto1

Latin, literally: with the crime still blazing
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Example Sentences

Bats’ nocturnal and elusive lifestyle also means scientists rarely have the chance to observe them in flagrante delicto.

Another triptych, a 2019 painting titled “Sappho,” shows two women in flagrante delicto in the backseat of a vehicle that explodes with riotous nature.

Edie said she’d not only walked in on Fuzzy in flagrante delicto, resulting in him slapping her and shooting her full of tranquilizers, but was herself subjected to his sexual advances when she was as young as 7.

It was a scene-stealing role, and Caan took advantage of it, playing the character’s many memorable moments to the hilt: his memorable in flagrante delicto entrance, his mocking “bada bing!” moment with Michael, that street-fight humiliation of his brother-in-law and, most of all, his shocking, bullet-ridden last gasps on the Jones Beach Causeway.

“You are in flagrante delicto, sir.”

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