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

But he soon after lost his own flagitious Life, and a most cruelly-acquired Crown, on the Plains of Bosworth.

From An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Brooke, Henry

Laborious! ’tis impracticable quite; To sink beyond a doubt, in this debate, With all his weight of wisdom and of will, And crime flagitious, I defy a fool.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

This flagitious deed “Against my country, and against my sire, “Was all for thee.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

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