heinous
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Ma supports the death penalty for those who kill police officers in the line of duty or commit heinous crimes against women and children.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
He discovers additional benefits in the process: “Characters revealed themselves as I assumed their points of view, especially when exploring their best defenses for selfish and heinous actions.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Look at trading for a key commodity with a heinous name: RBOB, short for reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending.
From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026
The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2026
He pronounced "incorrect" as though the term described the most heinous crime imaginable, and I stared at him open-mouthed, feeling a vague guilt.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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