flagitious

• Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. —  Henrik Ibsen
• Confronted with a flat refusal by the indignant Prince to perform what he regarded as a flagitious crime, the Amír-Nizám commissioned his own brother, Mírzá Ḥasan Kh_án, to execute his orders. —  God Passes By
• It may produce wicked, flagitious, tyrannical acts; but in no country is it law The duty of a sovereign in cases of rebellion, as laid down in the Hedaya, agrees with the general practice in India. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
• And for some time it appeared so to do, till it came to the touchstone of experience; and then it was found that there was a defalcation from these monstrous raised revenues which were to cancel in the minds of the Directors the wickedness of so atrocious, flagitious, and horrid an act of treachery. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
• But he had an uneasy and bitter presentiment that they were birds of paradise, and fifty other cursed birds beside, and that in this costly competition Dangerfield could take a flight beyond and above him; and he thought of the flagitious waste of money, and cursed him for a fool again. —  The House by the Church-Yard

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