heinously

Example Sentences

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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

He also said Lively and her team had "attempted to bulldoze reputations and livelihoods for heinously selfish reasons".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

“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