Crossword clues for heinousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
heinousness
heinousness \heinousness\ n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
Syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness.
Wiktionary
heinousness
n. The property of being heinous.
WordNet
heinousness
n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness]
Usage examples of "heinousness".
Hans announced himself ready to swear anything, adding blandly that words mattered nothing, as afterwards we could do whatever seemed best in our own interests, whereon I read him a short moral lecture on the heinousness of perjury, which did not seem to impress him very much.
It was felt that the principle of diminished responsibility applied to their actions in view of the heinousness of the crime they had just witnessed.