Meaning of in flagrante delicto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In the act of committing a misdeed.
   not-comparable
2. While performing sexual activity.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“He would be caught in flagrante delicto, and, with a heavy sentence hovering over him, he would probably be induced to name⟳ his accomplice.”

“We've already established that you were one of Miss⟳ Scarlet's clients. That's why you were so desperate to get⟳ your hands on those negatives. Photographs of you and Yvette in flagrante delicto, remember⟳?”

“I would add⟳ to that the fact that, if we are happy to be caught in flagrante delicto in a picturesque setting, there would be something almost humiliating about being caught somewhere as ugly as that.”

“When his housemates, two men and a woman, found them in flagrante delicto, one reported, “She said she didn’t want⟳ us to think⟳ of her as ‘that girl.’ ””

“As a student of the fossil record⟳, I can assure you that it’s not often that creatures are transformed, in flagrante delicto, into memento mori.”

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