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

Hallam indeed has said: "We continually find a more flagitious and undisguised abandonment of moral rules for the sake of some idol of a general principle than can be imputed to The Prince of Machiavel."

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

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

Can Jove, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day?

From Heathen Mythology by Various

But of all the abuses that deformed the Anglo-Saxon government, none was so flagitious as the sale of judicial redress.

From An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Spooner, Lysander