Who Is Flagrante Delicto?

In flagrante delicto (Latin: "in blazing offence") or sometimes simply in flagrante (Latin: "in blazing") is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offence (compare corpus delicti). The colloquial "caught red-handed" and "caught rapid" are English equivalents.

What does the phrase in flagrante delicto mean?

1 : in the very act of committing a misdeed : red-handed. 2 : in the midst of sexual activity.

How do you use flagrante delicto in a sentence?

in flagrante delicto in a sentence
  1. She said a lot of her patients also admit to flossing in flagrante delicto.
  2. While Tariq is in flagrante delicto, the police storm in.
  3. Here the intimacy of the literary act is caught in flagrante delicto . ..
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