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How To Use flagitious In A Sentence

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• The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. Henrik Ibsen
• So far, both inflation and long term interest rates have remained surprisingly low, despite the flagitious promiscuity in which the U.S. has increased its federal debt, from $5.5 billion to $8.6 billion in just 18 months. Alan Schram: The Next Thing to Go Wrong
• Wales; where he insinuated himself into the acquaintance of Mrs. Ecton, just after she had married Miss Melmond to Mr. Berlinton: and though this was not an intercourse that could travel to Gretna Green, the beauty and romantic turn of the bride of so disproportioned a marriage, opened to his unprincipled mind a scheme yet more flagitious. Camilla
• a flagitious crime
• For instance; that after the long course of a most lewd and flagitious life, a man may be reconciled to God, and have his sins forgiven at the last gasp, upon confession of them to the priest, with that imperfect degree of contrition for them, which they call attrition, together with the absolution of the priest. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
• 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. The Fair Maid of Perth
• He answered with spirited resentment demands he deemed highly flagitious, counselling those who sent them, when next they applied to an unhappy family to whose calamities they had contributed, to enquire first if its principles, as well as its fortune, made the hazards of gaming amongst its domestic responsibilities. Camilla
• Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.” A Renegade History of the United States