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

The question will obviously occur, whether Constantia was sought by him with upright or flagitious views.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.

In truth, the ancient problem is extinct, and no reader of this volume will continue to wonder how so intelligent and reasonable a man came to propose such flagitious counsels.

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

Swear that you will never, on any condition, for any boon, aid him in his flagitious enterprise; that you will thwart, and resist, and combat it to the utmost.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various