flagitious
Example Sentences
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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
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 Henry Brooke
The question will obviously occur, whether Constantia was sought by him with upright or flagitious views.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Gage offered to pardon all who would lay down their arms, except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, "whose offences are of too flagitious a nature" for forgiveness.
From The Siege of Boston by Allen French
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 Edward Young
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