“flagrante”

The following 3 entries include the term flagrante.

flagrante delicto

adverb

: in flagrante delicto

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in flagrante

adverb

: in flagrante delicto

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in flagrante delicto

adverb

: in the very act of committing a misdeed : red-handed

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