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
Can Jove, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day?
From Heathen Mythology by Various
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
The proceedings of the Council of Blood on this occasion were marked by a more flagitious contempt of justice, if possible, than its proceedings usually were.
From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by Prescott, William Hickling
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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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