flagitious

adj

1. (literary)Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.

   “This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […] .”

   “The duke found his soldiery half disciplined, flagitious, disorderly and inefficient: he rendered them, in his own words, a "perfect organ."”

   “As flagitious as he can be, Mr. Trump has been a legitimate news figure and, thus, what he had to say should be aired.”

2. (literary)Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.

   “But if in Noble Minds ſome Dregs remain, / Not yet purg'd off, of Spleen and ſow'r Diſdain, / Diſcharge that Rage on more Provoking Crimes, / Nor fear a Dearth on theſe Flagitious Times.”

   “Less extensively mischievous, tyrannicide would be less flagitious than populicide; murder of one, though he were a Secretary of State; or—but imagination must stop here—than murder of a promiscuous multitude of unarmed men, women, and children.”

   “As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious!"”