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Thesaurus: heinous

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

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  1. a. Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
  2. adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal
  3. Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton. Syn. -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious. -- Hei"nous*ly, adv. -- Hei"nous*ness, n.
  4. Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; givinggreat great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker.How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.
  5. j:100 s extremely wicked, deeply criminal