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
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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
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
This couple were said to have been married without the intervention of go-betweens, and hence the most flagitious conduct was to be expected from them.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.
Well knew he the flagitious character of the man who was once more his commanding officer.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
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