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
General Wilkinson, then commanding in the west, afterwards made communications to the president, "involving men distinguished for integrity and patriotism; men of talents, honoured by the confidence of the government, in the flagitious plot."
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert
Well knew he the flagitious character of the man who was once more his commanding officer.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
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
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