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
Well knew he the flagitious character of the man who was once more his commanding officer.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases.
From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.
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
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