Crossword clues for heinously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heinous \Hei"nous\ (h[=a]"n[u^]s), a. [OF. ha["i]nos hateful, F. haineux, fr. OF. ha["i]ne hate, F. haine, fr. ha["i]r to hate; of German origin. See Hate.] Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving 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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a heinous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered" [syn: monstrously]
Usage examples of "heinously".
This is probably the one simple fact, right now, in a story that is going to become so heinously complicated in the next few months that every reporter assigned to it will need both a shrewd criminal lawyer and scholar in the field of constitutional law right next to him or her at all times.