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
Up to that period, so far as government was concerned, a man might have been unprincipled and flagitious.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira
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)
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
That this family, with their illustrious father, should have escaped altogether, is an instance of good fortune as remarkable as the attempt was flagitious.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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