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
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
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
But he soon after lost his own flagitious Life, and a most cruelly-acquired Crown, on the Plains of Bosworth.
From An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Brooke, Henry
Indignation is a generous outburst of ~ in view of things which are indigna, or unworthy to be done, involving what is mean, cruel, flagitious, etc., in character or conduct.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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