flagitiousness

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Dark hints of flagitiousness were thrown out, which our innocence wholly failed to comprehend.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

On one point, however, the neighbours, Mrs. M'Gurk not excepted, were practically unanimous, the utter flagitiousness, namely, of Tishy M'Crum.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane

He lays his plans with all the subtlety of a Machiavel, and all the flagitiousness of a Borgia.

From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by Godwin, William

As I have now replied to my calumniators, as far as my own character required, though not so fully as their flagitiousness deserved, I shall add a few words on the state of public affairs.

From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by Watson, John Selby

The flagitiousness of that embassy had been attempted to be concealed by directing the public attention to the price which, the gentleman says, was given for the disclosure.

From American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Johnston, Alexander