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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

heinous = shockingly brutal or cruel

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

heinously = shockingly brutal or cruel

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 is
Shakespeare, 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 me
Shakespeare, 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

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