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

Boötes 'mid the Triönes had bent “His wain with sloping pole; when Myrrha came “To her flagitious crime.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude.

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

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)

These are thus characterized by their pupil Buchanan,—nec inhumanis, nec malis, sed omnis religionis ignaris: "Not uncivilized, not flagitious, but ignorant of every religion."

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de