He has hinted, at the flagitious Conduct of the two. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 April 1777] Reference
Of all these swindles, the treason swindle is the most flagitious. From Wordnik.com. [Marching orders] Reference
Mr. Jefferson Davis, still more flagitious than that of Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter Concerning Toleration] Reference
Pennsylvanians alone have renounced this traffic, which they account flagitious. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The king had detected something flagitious, which would not have been very difficult. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829] Reference
He also claims to "know the author's disgraceful and flagitious history well" (327). back. From Wordnik.com. [Paranoid Politics: Shelley and the _Quarterly Review_] Reference
A dissolute, flagitious footman, or porter, makes full as good a rake as a man of the first quality. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
He is impure or flagitious, who meeting with modest women, sheweth that which taketh his name of shame or secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [12 « June « 2008 « Jahsonic] Reference
It is the most flagitious, because it is equally flagitious, in principle, with any; and it includes all the others. From Wordnik.com. [Marching orders] Reference
With the most they wear off and perish, as they did with him, who after this cast himself into many flagitious sins. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
To the calamities received from the enemy, the decemvirs add two flagitious deeds, one abroad, and the other in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
It is gratifying to learn, that this functionary has had occasion to pass judgment on no very flagitious crime since his appointment. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference
Disorder entailed by disobedience to nature's dictates they regard as grievances, not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I regret to say that "old Cookson" was the shockingly disrespectful way in which this flagitious youth spoke of his reverend and learned tutor. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference
No doubt can be entertained, that a humane and liberal government will interpose its authority, to prevent the repetition of such flagitious conduct. From Wordnik.com. [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference
Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were described as "being too flagitious to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
And finally, the authorities declared that his "offenses are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration but that of condign punishment.". From Wordnik.com. [Dove's Eye View:] Reference
It was in vain that the Corsicans addressed a most affecting memorial to the court of Versailles; that remorseless government persisted in its flagitious project. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]
Speak not for Ramorny, for he dies; and go thou from my presence, and repent the flagitious counsels which could make thee stand before me with a falsehood in thy mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
Thus, in a moment, had terminated his long and flagitious career. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
It's a unique taste of homo-comedy at its talented and flagitious best. From Wordnik.com. [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference
This deportment was too humiliating and flagitious to be imputed to him. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
Our short duration here and the doubts of the hereafter should awe the most flagitious, if they reflected on them. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
Egmont denounced the proceedings as highly flagitious, and busied himself with punishing the criminals in Flanders. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
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