Word Finder - heinous

definition

Totally reprehensible.

example

I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.

But it did not stop the heinous acts he's committing.

A truly heinous looking skull says, "Look if you dare, but touch at your own risk."

During his take down of a Gotham City crime boss, though, he uncovers a more heinous threat that even the criminals of the city should fear.

What are those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?

Sins of ignorance, they are not so heinous, tho they are sins.

Divorce can be enacted when the spouse has committed a very heinous offense or crime.

Other celeb scandal fodder includes the stars committing heinous and serious crimes.

After a particularly heinous day, dealing with Mark Anders Day at the mall, they relax with some especially good marijuana.

Not all the sins named are equally heinous according to modern conceptions; many of them deal with petty offences against religious usages that seem to us but trifling.

But not stopping the heinous acts he's committing.

I don't see it anywhere, not in the UK, not in supposedly heinous France or Germany.

The way the crimes were commited were especially heinous during that period in time.

Yet even in the enlightened 18th century popular fanaticism made of sacrilege the most heinous offence.

The general charges, which they endeavoured to substantiate by forged letters, need not count for much, and in many cases they only exaggerated what, if true, was not so heinous as they suggested.

Would the, presumably, very young ' vandals ' ever think to do anything so heinous inside a religious building?

But it would have been a most heinous crime to summon a completely unarmed people to fight against an enemy armed to the teeth.

You control a character suffering from amnesia who is trying to help rabbit-like creatures called Mimigas from a heinous plot.

Her husband, who worked at a nearby farm, had no idea why his wife committed the heinous crime.

Adam's heinous actions in 2009 included taking over Newman Enterprises and firing his siblings, gas lighting Ashley Abbott Newman, his stepmother and conspiring with Jack Abbott to frame Victor for murder.

Lyra discovers children are being used in some heinous way and mobilizes some friends to attempt a rescue.

And here's where the chauvinism is at its most heinous.

Great efforts were made to obtain mercy for the accused, but the crime was considered too heinous, and the pope (Clement VIII.) refused to grant a pardon; on the i ith of September 1599, Beatrice and Lucrezia were beheaded, and Giacomo, after having been tortured with redhot pincers, was killed with a mace, drawn and quartered.

It is widely believed that the perpetuators of that heinous crime did so partly in response to bullying.

The bill, which defines terms like "heinous", "cruel", and "depraved" does not define a specific governing body to control the sales and guide retailers.

His crimes against humanity are of the most heinous character and are of the most repugnant acts known to humankind.

These principles applied to all classes of society alike, and though strife within the family was by no means unknown, at all events in royal families, the actual slaying of a kinsman was regarded as the most heinous of all offences.

Sir George Grey sought to deal with the difficulty as a whole, and to provide for all classes of criminals, the most heinous deserving severe correction and the minor offenders in the earliest stages of misconduct.

So he presided at the trial of John Claydon, Skinner and citizen of London, who after five years' imprisonment at various times had made public abjuration before the late archbishop, Arundel, but now was found in possession of a book in English called The Lanterne of Light, which contained the heinous heresy that the principal cause of the persecution of Christians was the illegal retention by priests of the goods of this world, and that archbishops and bishops were the special seats of antichrist.

Why are even scientists, involved in the supposed heinous practice, joining in the denigration of reductionism in science?

When Cecil openly questions his king, the monarch strips him of his command and asks him to commit an act so heinous that it ultimately sends the knight on his own personal quest for redemption.

He spoke out against these heinous acts of the military establishment and his superiors sent him to the clandestine prison Deep Freeze.

When the sins confessed were very heinous the satisfactions were correspondingly severe and sometimes lasted over many years.