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

Gossip—which had become differentiated from scandal, because of a wider variety of subjects to chatter about than flagitious conduct, occupied a large proportion of the time of the women.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

The people who profess belief in this are shocked at the outrage offered to our humanity by the Development Theory, while they themselves commit this outrage more flagitious.

From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Nowhere in other historians is there a shred of evidence to support the story of Theodora's flagitious life.

From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred

The conduct of Lucretia Borgia has been the subject of much obloquy, which her defenders maintain rests chiefly on inferences from her living in a flagitious court, where she witnessed the most profligate scenes. 

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry