flagitious

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The Grinch, a nefarious, flagitious, sly, nasty, troublesome, bad-tempered, intolerant and foul-smelling character who,
for reasons never fully explained, lives in a cave above the town. -- Robin Greer, "Carrey Christmas",
News Letter, December 1, 2000

These men were reported to be heretics . . . , seducers of youth, and men of flagitious life. -- Isaac Taylor,
History of the World

During the Whiskey Rebellion 200 years ago, a preacher declared: "The present day is unfolding a design the most extensive,
flagitious and diabolical, that human art and malice have ever invented . . . If accomplished, the earth can
be nothing better than a sink of impurities." -- George Will, "Paranoiac Terrorism Is Part of American History",
Newsday, April 25, 1995

Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears,

Tears falling from repentant heaviness

Of thy most vile and loathsome filthiness,

The stench whereof corrupts the inward soul

With such flagitious crimes of heinous sins

As no commiseration may expel,

But mercy, Faustus, of thy Saviour sweet,

Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt.

-- Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History