in flagrante delicto

alternative flagrante delicto · alternative in flagrante · alternative Anglicised uncommon in flagrant delict · alternative in flagranti delicto

1. not comparableIn the act of committing a misdeed.

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

   1908, Baroness Orczy, chapter V, in The Old Man in the Corner

   Synonyms: in the act, red-handed, with one's dick in one's hand, with one's hand in the cookie jar, with one's pants down

2. not comparableWhile performing sexual activity.

   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.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65

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   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?

   1985, Jonathan Lynn, Clue, spoken by Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull)

   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.

   2002, Adriana Hunter, transl., The Sexual Life of Catherine M., translation of La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, page 146

   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.’ ”

   2015 February 8, Naomi Schaefer Riley, “Columbia mattress rape case is not justice — it’s shaming without proof”, in New York Post