flagitious

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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

The conduct of Lucretia Borgia has been the subject of much obloquy, which her defenders maintain rests chiefly on inferences from her living in a flagitious court, where she witnessed the most profligate scenes. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

These are thus characterized by their pupil Buchanan,—nec inhumanis, nec malis, sed omnis religionis ignaris: "Not uncivilized, not flagitious, but ignorant of every religion."

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

This 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.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James

Swear that you will never, on any condition, for any boon, aid him in his flagitious enterprise; that you will thwart, and resist, and combat it to the utmost.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various