Sentence examples for flagitious from inspiring English sources

He warned that Jefferson's attempts to dismantle his banking system "would be one of the most wanton and flagitious acts that ever stained the annals of a civilized nation".

A single case of whisky, judiciously followed up, is equivalent to a steadily rising bank account for the flagitious agent of the law.

(I've never used flagitious, an adjective of obscure origin meaning "wicked"; maybe in the next campaign season).

But in Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, we get a definition of "utterly reprehensible in nature or behavior" and a fearsome farrago of synonyms as adjectives: "corrupt, degenerate, depraved, flagitious, perverse, rotten, unhealthy, villainous.