heinous
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Heinous crimes are another matter entirely, but as any reader of biography can attest, genius and pathology aren't exactly strangers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2018
The collection’s longest story, “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order: SVU,” is a glorious example of such narrative subversion.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2017
He responds like this: Image: HBO And just like that, Sansa’s Heinous Men Reprieve is over.
From The Verge • Jul. 31, 2017
Husband-and-wife writing duo Nancy and Steve Carell are behind this cop parody starring Parks and Recreation‘s Rashida Jones as an officer in the “Really Heinous Crimes Unit.”
From Time • Dec. 30, 2015
“That Heinous Rebellion first put in Practice by that Pirate Ingle.”—Acts of Assembly, 1638-64, p.
From Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 by Ingle, Edward
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