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heinous
[ hey-nuhs ]
adjective
- hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible:
a heinous offense.
Synonyms: nefarious, villainous, atrocious, flagitious, flagrant, infamous, wicked
Antonyms: admirable
heinous
/ ˈhiː-; ˈheɪnəs /
adjective
- evil; atrocious
Derived Forms
- ˈheinously, adverb
- ˈheinousness, noun
Other Words From
- heinous·ly adverb
- heinous·ness noun
- non·heinous adjective
- non·heinous·ly adverb
- non·heinous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of heinous1
Example Sentences
Part thriller, part true crime investigation, the nonfiction book uses one of the most heinous unsolved crimes of the Troubles — the 1972 disappearance of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10 who was abducted from her Belfast home by intruders assumed to be members of the Irish Republican Army — to explore the lingering trauma of political violence on survivors and perpetrators alike.
On his Fox show, Hegseth also vigorously protested the prosecutions of soldiers for war crimes, even to the point of persuading Trump, while he was president, to pardon two perpetrators of particularly heinous murders of civilians.
The Makin Review has exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth.
While Schultz agreed and raised the possibility of a "minor probation," Gershman argued that Merchan could impose a prison sentence of six to 24 months, citing Merchan's sentencing of ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to five months for "conduct far less heinous than Trump’s."
"By scratching the surface you get a terrible shock. It's such a heinous crime," says the Queen, who has called for domestic violence to be talked about more openly.
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