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shockingly brutal or cruel- What could drive a person to commit such a heinous crime?
heinous = shockingly brutal or cruel
- Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be asham'd to be my father's child!William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice - And even she was more complicated than I thought, keeping a secret that she thought was too terrible to reveal, out of a heinously twisted protective instinct.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- It is a heinous thing to kill one who is of noble blood.Homer -- The Odyssey
- 'You may as well face the matter, said I; 'you have been caught in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous.'Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,Shakespeare, William -- King Richard III
- But let me claim your attention, while we look over the particulars of this heinous offence.Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Pioneers
- I have omitted whole heinous episodes.Hornung, E. W. -- A Thief in the Night
- By Creon guilty of a heinous crime.Sophocles -- Antigone
- Was it a heinous offence to own an accidental likeness to a king's son?Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Outlaw of Torn
- Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,Shakespeare, William -- King Lear
- Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,Shakespeare, William -- Titus Andronicus
- There shouldst thou find one heinous article,Shakespeare, William -- King Richard II
- Which harm within itself so heinous isShakespeare, William -- King John
- not very heinous, mademoiselle," he returned, "a mere abuse of confidence.Dumas, Alexandre -- The Man in the Iron Mask
- Alack, what heinous sin is it in meShakespeare, William -- The Merchant of Venice
- I will put on your record that you were expelled on a morals charge of the most heinous nature, Mr. McLean.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- However, I also saw our own men commit acts just as heinous.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Ban Kimoon, the UN secretary general, called it "a heinous and cowardly act."Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- " 'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
heinous = shockingly brutal or cruel
heinously = shockingly brutal or cruel