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heinous
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    We will pursue every lead in this heinous act.†  (source)
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    These are the investigators who figured out this heinous crime, and we need them in court to present our case.†  (source)
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    We definitely have our disagreements—and Wes, it should never be forgotten, is in prison for his participation in a heinous crime.†  (source)
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    Over the last 20+ years dating back to the bombing of the Marine Corps Barracks in Lebanon, various factions of radical Islamic Terrorists have been committing heinous acts of terrorism against the free world.†  (source)
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    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.†  (source)
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    Nor are the most conscientious compilations of Natural History for the benefit of the young and tender, free from the same heinousness of mistake.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Alfred T Slipper becomes a righteous pillar of light so painfully bright that the most heinous villain trembles before him and confesses!†  (source)
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    Nevertheless, and though you have heinously offended the King's Majesty, we hope if you will even now forthink and repent of your obstinate opinions, you may still taste his gracious pardon.†  (source)
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    She could imagine a thousand heinous people who might have some bone to pick out of Richie's skull—even his friends were scary.†  (source)
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    I am heinously unprovided.†  (source)
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    Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.†  (source)
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    For more than a decade after the bombings, the hibakusha lived in an economic limbo, apparently because the Japanese government did not want to find itself saddled with anything like moral responsibility for heinous acts of the victorious United States.†  (source)
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    Let me then advise you, dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.†  (source)
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