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
This is what I did not expect, for I did not think the flagitious dog had so much spirit or courage in him as to meet me.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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
This flagitious deed “Against my country, and against my sire, “Was all for thee.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
These men were reported to be heretics, Lutherans in disguise, seducers of youth, and men of flagitious life.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
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