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

Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and incorruptible in purity.

From Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy by Burney, Fanny

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.

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

From Heathen Mythology by Various

In truth, the ancient problem is extinct, and no reader of this volume will continue to wonder how so intelligent and reasonable a man came to propose such flagitious counsels.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron