heinously
Example Sentences
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The billionaire X owner has posted numerous times on the platform about the police's response to the stabbing, criticising "how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
“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
Because, as series creator Bruce Miller seems to be telling us throughout this season, invoking fury may be the only way the heinously wronged can heal.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 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
