Thesaurus / flagitious
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It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law.
THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE, VOL. XI. (OF 12)EDMUND BURKEFor the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow?
WIELAND; OR THE TRANSFORMATIONCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWNThis was a wholesome scheme of vengeance as flagitious and vindictive as it was heartless and unprincipled.
THE LAST LAIRD OF MACNABVARIOUSTo punish this flagitious deed, and restore his dominion in Italy, the emperor sent a fleet and army into the Adriatic Gulf.
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIREEDWARD GIBBONAll 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.
THE CHURCH AND MODERN LIFEWASHINGTON GLADDENIt is greater folly to pretend that the earthquake killed the most flagitious sinners.
FLOWERS OF FREETHOUGHTGEORGE W. FOOTEYet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity.
HENRIK IBSENEDMUND GOSSETo the calamities received from the enemy, the decemvirs add two flagitious deeds, one abroad, and the other in the city.
THE HISTORY OF ROME, BOOKS 01 TO 08TITUS LIVIUSUp to that period, so far as government was concerned, a man might have been unprincipled and flagitious.
POPULAR EDUCATIONIRA MAYHEWThis is what I did not expect, for I did not think the flagitious dog had so much spirit or courage in him as to meet me.
THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDARJAMES HOGGWORDS RELATED TO FLAGITIOUS
- angry
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- base
- beastly
- calamitous
- corrupt
- damnable
- depraved
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