Shockingly brutal or cruel.
1 This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him.
2 That gallant Cavalier was hanged, after the Restoration, for a flagitious burglary.
3 Since a legal marriage was impossible, no doubt, his views were flagitious .
4 I place on that miscreant's back a long array of flagitious ancestors.
5 Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career.
6 For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow?
7 Your youth and inexperience make you a stranger to a deceitful and flagitious world.
8 To them, such a flagitious betrayal of trust was a new and startling event.
9 To do so would be the most flagitious injustice.
10 What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious .
11 Egmont denounced the proceedings as highly flagitious , and busied himself with punishing the criminals in Flanders.
12 To abandon their shield is a flagitious crime.
13 Quickly, and with as much self-command as I could muster, I related the flagitious history to him.
14 His conspiracy has been one of the most flagitious of which history will ever furnish an example.
15 The Puritan had frowned at innocent diversions; the comic poet took under his patronage the most flagitious excesses.
16 His motives were sordid and flagitious .
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