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

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

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

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

But of all the abuses that deformed the Anglo-Saxon government, none was so flagitious as the sale of judicial redress.

From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Spooner, Lysander