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 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
Four months more brought him to the end of his flagitious career.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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
Laborious! ’tis impracticable quite; To sink beyond a doubt, in this debate, With all his weight of wisdom and of will, And crime flagitious, I defy a fool.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
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