flagitious

1 Confronted with a flat refusal by the indignant Prince to perform what he regarded as a flagitious crime, the Amír-Nizám commissioned his own brother, Mírzá Ḥasan Khán, to execute his orders.

2 And the chronicler explains the violent feuds of the sons of King Henry and their fratricidal, internecine strifes by the flagitious transgression of God's commandment: "thou shalt keep the Sabbath holy."

3 Pierced by several lances, the prince of the Heruli sank to the ground; the flagitious woman had satisfied her revenge at the expense of the peace and the alliance between the Langobards and the Heruli.

4 The culprit was convicted upon various satisfactory testimony; but the incident betokens a state of security, at that period, and a rarity of flagitious offences, which puts to shame the demoralization of our own day.

5 Laborious! ’tis impracticable quite; To sink beyond a doubt, in this debate, With all his weight of wisdom and of will, And crime flagitious, I defy a fool.

6 In truth, the ancient problem is extinct, and no reader of this volume will continue to wonder how so intelligent and reasonable a man came to propose such flagitious counsels.

7 The conduct of Lucretia Borgia has been the subject of much obloquy, which her defenders maintain rests chiefly on inferences from her living in a flagitious court, where she witnessed the most profligate scenes. 

8 Suspicious that Rebel citizens within our lines were more or less implicated in this and other raids, quite a number of arrests were made among them, which cleared the country of the most flagitious cases.

9 Yet These by bold flagitious Tongues run down, Made all Conspirers against Davids Crown.

10 The two men in white were never traced of course, but, later, we meet three men not less flagitious, and even more mysterious.

11 Indignation is a generous outburst of ~ in view of things which are indigna, or unworthy to be done, involving what is mean, cruel, flagitious, etc., in character or conduct.

12 The lessons which the princes had learnt from the consequences of their flagitious actions did not avail them against later temptations.

13 Coventry stigmatized them as marking especial and flagitious ingratitude.

14 That the Rebellion itself should be regarded with general reprobation throughout the Free States was inevitable, for, in the first place, it involves a most flagitious breach of faith.

15 This couple were said to have been married without the intervention of go-betweens, and hence the most flagitious conduct was to be expected from them.

16 Swear that you will never, on any condition, for any boon, aid him in his flagitious enterprise; that you will thwart, and resist, and combat it to the utmost.

17 But I will now cite another instance of the advocacy of repudiation by Mr. Jefferson Davis, still more flagitious than that of Mississippi.

18 Because the most part of these are not excommunicated nor forfaulted, nor notoriously flagitious and profane, nor such as have from the beginning been, and still are enemies.

19 Here, then, behold these venerable men, collected in a body, enclosed within walls dedicated to holy offices, bewailing the flagitious actions of their country-men, yet devout, composed, earnest in prayer, and incorruptible in purity.

20 But the action on the slave trade was the deliberate sanction for twenty years of man-stealing of the most flagitious sort.

1 罪大恶极的

scarlet enormous black-hearted flagrant

2 穷凶极恶的

cloven-footed monstrous satanic diabolical devilish flagrant diabolic of the deepest dye

3 无耻的

brazen-faced blushless cool abandoned shameless audacious scurvy unprincipled impudent dishonourable barefaced hilding

4 可恶

dag-nabbed horrible damned horrid heinous cursed hellish infernal abominable ruddy accursed beastly blasted doggone damnable execrable confounded blamed perishing sodding dratted naffing cotton-picking damn a bastard of a

5 缺德的

wicked

6 罪大恶极

enormous flagrant flagrance

7 残忍

brutal cruel fierce grim ruthless brute fell stony murderous inhuman grievous heartless inhumane merciless barbarous ruffian unfeeling remorseless hard-hearted insensate sanguinary unmerciful truculent deadly cruelty rigor brutality ferocity bestiality brutalize

8 罪恶的

wicked Black vicious sinful nefarious villainous

9 臭名昭著

notorious crying notoriety

10 臭名昭著的

notorious crying

11 无耻

brazen-faced blushless cool abandoned shameless audacious scurvy unprincipled impudent dishonourable barefaced hilding paltrily unashamedly audaciously dishonorably brassily scurvily arrantly squalidity brass assurance audacity effrontery squalidness scurviness scoundrelism

12 可恶的

dag-nabbed horrible damned horrid heinous cursed hellish infernal abominable ruddy accursed beastly blasted doggone damnable execrable confounded blamed perishing sodding dratted naffing cotton-picking a bastard of a

13 残忍的

brutal cruel fierce grim ruthless brute fell stony murderous inhuman grievous heartless inhumane merciless barbarous ruffian unfeeling remorseless hard-hearted insensate sanguinary unmerciful truculent

14 恶毒的

beastly bitchy malicious vicious Savage poisonous malignant nefarious venomous malign virulent bad-minded

15 罪孽深重

a multitude of sins

16 穷凶极恶

diabolical devilish diabolic enormity monstrosity of the deepest dye