Meaning & use
heinous
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Utterly wicked or shockingly evil.
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The judge called it one of the most heinous crimes the court had ever seen.
History remembers the heinous acts committed during the war.
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Almost always used to describe crimes or acts of cruelty, rarely applied to minor wrongdoing.
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