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

The people who profess belief in this are shocked at the outrage offered to our humanity by the Development Theory, while they themselves commit this outrage more flagitious.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)

This is what I did not expect, for I did not think the flagitious dog had so much spirit or courage in him as to meet me.

From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James

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

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