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 people who profess belief in this are shocked at the outrage offered to our humanity by the Development Theory, while they themselves commit this outrage more flagitious.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

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

That this family, with their illustrious father, should have escaped altogether, is an instance of good fortune as remarkable as the attempt was flagitious.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various