outrageous

outrageous
out·ra·geous /au̇t-'rā-jəs/ adj: going beyond standards of decency: utterly intolerable in a civilized society
outrageous conduct
out·ra·geous·ly adv
out·ra·geous·ness n

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

outrageous
I adjective abominable, absurd, abusive, acrimonious, affronting, arrant, atrocious, barefaced, base, black, brazen, conspicuous, contemptible, contumeliosus, contumelious, corrupt, cruel, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, dire, disgraceful, dishonorable, disobliging, disrespectful, drastic, egregious, enormous, exaggerated, excessive, execrable, exorbitant, extreme, fanatic, fanatical, ferocious, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, galling, glaring, gross, grossly offensive, harmful, hateful, heinous, horrifying, hot-headed, hyperbolical, ignoble, immanis, immense, immoderate, immoderatus, infamous, infuriating, iniquitous, injurious, inordinate, insolent, insulting, intolerable, low, mad, madcap, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, maniacal, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, overdone, perfidious, preposterous, questionable, rabid, radical, raging, reprehensible, scandalous, shameless, shocking, sinful, spiteful, tempestuous, unconscionable, undue, unpleasant, unreasonable, unwarranted, villainous, wanton, wicked, wild, wrongful associated concepts: outrageous conduct II index arrant (onerous), deplorable, diabolic, disgraceful, disorderly, drastic, egregious, excessive, exorbitant, extreme (exaggerated), flagrant, gross (flagrant), heinous, inept (inappropriate), inexcusable, inordinate, insolent, irrational, nefarious, notorious, offensive (offending), presumptuous, scandalous, unconscionable, undue (excessive), unwarranted

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006

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