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“in flagrante delicto”
Descriptive of discovering someone behaving in an illegitimate and unethical way: An in flagrante delicto refers to a legal term which is used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an illegal offense; literally, "with the crime still blazing".
The phrases: "caught red-handed" or "caught in the act" are English equivalents of in flagrante delicto.
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Latin Proverbs, Mottoes, Phrases, and Words: Group I
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linqu-, lict-
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