flagitious

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

Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and incorruptible in purity.

From Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy by Burney, Fanny

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)

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

The conduct of Lucretia Borgia has been the subject of much obloquy, which her defenders maintain rests chiefly on inferences from her living in a flagitious court, where she witnessed the most profligate scenes. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry