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heinous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | flagitious |
| Derivation | heinousness |
heinous accusations.
Examples of heinous
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Nineteen people were shot in the heinous Tucson, Arizona, massacre, six fatally.
From the cnn.com
Increase my taxes, if necessary, because I want these heinous murderers snuffed.
From the kansas.com
In extremity, this maxim can be a rationalized affirmation for heinous activity.
From the psychcentral.com
On rare occasions, those who do fall through the cracks can do something heinous.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Robson Green is the mordant inspector sleuthing the U.K.'s most heinous crimes.
From the time.com
The double album is one of the most heinous inventions in the history of mankind.
From the hecklerspray.com
How were those charges less heinous than a ridiculous accusation against Obama?
From the sacbee.com
Man will commit heinous crimes, and we should retain the ability to prevent that.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
If the grandparents are heinous people, the kid will figure that out for herself.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Flagitious: extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
- (heinously) in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered"
- (heinousness) atrocity: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
- Totally reprehensible
- (heinousness) The property of being heinous
- Awful, scary, monstrous; any activity fraught with extreme danger.
- From the French haine, which is correctly pronounced hainous as it was formerly written, is such a palpable error that no lexicographer can be justified in giving it his sanction.
- Sorority girls' favorite word for ugly.
- Hateful, atrocious, odious, offensive.
