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 culprit was convicted upon various satisfactory testimony; but the incident betokens a state of security, at that period, and a rarity of flagitious offences, which puts to shame the demoralization of our own day.

From Old New England Traits by Lunt, George

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)

Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

What is he then, who doth not contend for virtue with the good but to exceed the most flagitious in vices?

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander