heinously
- a word derived from heinous.
Example Sentences
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The billionaire X owner has posted numerous times on the platform about the police's response to the stabbing, criticising "how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The author likens Grietje to the women of Salem and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, describing her as one of early America’s “unfairly and heinously maligned women.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
“This is great news. It’s just so hurtful to people, not to mention it’s heinously ugly,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
The film is the visual equivalent of a cheaply made, heinously charming and diverting trinket that one can buy at a beach hut boardwalk kiosk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
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.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
