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UK
/hˈeɪnəs/
]
[ US /ˈheɪnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈheɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely wicked, deeply criminal
heinous accusations
a flagitious crime
How To Use heinous In A Sentence
- Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
- The 3, 000 lives killed heinously, and his mis-reading of Islam confound Shia and Sunni.
- What offends me violently is when a character is represented as a Good and Upright and Virtuous Hero, when almost his every act betrays him as a villain of the most heinous kind. Death carries a camcorder
- These stories rarely take the form of something blatantly heinous like overt racism.
- A man given to indignity is capable of committing any crime, however heinous it may be.
- How did they live with themselves, knowing they would commit such a heinous act?
- If so, both the probation service and police have a duty of care to people we assess, regardless how heinous the offence. The Sun
- Also the list of heinous offences should be expanded to cover social and economic offences.
- What they did here was a very heinous act,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
- However, the prosecutor brought them back to the heinousness of the crime and the emotion.