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
His flagitious career commenced by a blind devotion to his guardian deity, culminated in a gigantic forgery, and closed with transportation and infamy.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
Next, it was embodied in a society, and, moreover, a secret and unlawful society or hetæria; and it was a proselytizing society; and its very name was connected with "flagitious," "atrocious," and "shocking" acts.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Nowhere in other historians is there a shred of evidence to support the story of Theodora's flagitious life.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
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
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