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

General Wilkinson, then commanding in the west, afterwards made communications to the president, "involving men distinguished for integrity and patriotism; men of talents, honoured by the confidence of the government, in the flagitious plot."

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

These are thus characterized by their pupil Buchanan,—nec inhumanis, nec malis, sed omnis religionis ignaris: "Not uncivilized, not flagitious, but ignorant of every religion."

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

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