flagitious

It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law.

For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow?

This was a wholesome scheme of vengeance as flagitious and vindictive as it was heartless and unprincipled.

To punish this flagitious deed, and restore his dominion in Italy, the emperor sent a fleet and army into the Adriatic Gulf.

All this was done under the forms of law, and yet it would be hard to find in the annals of crime an instance more flagitious.