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

Hallam indeed has said: "We continually find a more flagitious and undisguised abandonment of moral rules for the sake of some idol of a general principle than can be imputed to The Prince of Machiavel."

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

Up to that period, so far as government was concerned, a man might have been unprincipled and flagitious.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

Gage offered to pardon all who would lay down their arms, except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, "whose offences are of too flagitious a nature" for forgiveness.

From The Siege of Boston by French, Allen

The question will obviously occur, whether Constantia was sought by him with upright or flagitious views.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden