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flagitious

[fluh-jish-uhs] / fləˈdʒɪʃ əs /


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To applaud the sadists, voyeurs and media manipulators masquerading as directors, actors and writers is as misguided as were the lives of that flagitious couple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Can Jove, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day?

From Heathen Mythology by Various

This couple were said to have been married without the intervention of go-betweens, and hence the most flagitious conduct was to be expected from them.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.




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