It was necessary, not only to bribe, but to bribe more shamelessly and flagitiously than his predecessors, in order to make up for lost time. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Pontifical Government is the most flagitiously unjust, the most inexorably cruel, the most essentially tyrannical Government, that ever existed under the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
Brattles; -- and then there was the fact that Carry Brattle, who had been regularly "subpoenaed," had kept herself out of the way, -- most flagitiously, illegally and damnably. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
So far as I could learn the particulars of their previous history, they had lived flagitiously loose lives; such as must have corrupted their blood long before they became lepers. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
He was a tried man; and if there had been one more desperately and abandonedly corrupt, more wildly and flagitiously oppressive, to be found unemployed in India, large as his offers were, Mr. Hastings would not have taken this money from Debi Sing. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)] Reference
It had been determined not to bring him to trial for his recent offence, but to put him to death under the sentence pronounced against him several years before, a sentence so flagitiously unjust that the most servile and obdurate lawyers of that bad age could not speak of it without shame. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
As it is well known that the commander of a distant frontier post has the power of acting pretty much after his own will, there is little doubt but that the old veteran would have been hanged or shot at least, had he not luckily fallen ill of a fever, through mere chagrin and mortification — and most flagitiously deserted from all earthly command, with his beloved locks unviolated. From Wordnik.com. [A History of New York] Reference
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