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

What is he then, who doth not contend for virtue with the good but to exceed the most flagitious in vices?

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

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

The lessons which the princes had learnt from the consequences of their flagitious actions did not avail them against later temptations.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

Boötes 'mid the Triönes had bent “His wain with sloping pole; when Myrrha came “To her flagitious crime.

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