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

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 Noah Webster

Nowhere in other historians is there a shred of evidence to support the story of Theodora's flagitious life.

From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain

Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

Hallam indeed has said: "We continually find a more flagitious and undisguised abandonment of moral rules for the sake of some idol of a general principle than can be imputed to The Prince of Machiavel."

From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton