Definitions
extremely wicked, deeply criminal
Word origin
From Middle English hainous, from Old French haïneus (compare French haineux) from haïr (“to hate”), hadir (“to hate”) (compare Old French en-hadir (“to become filled with hate”)), from Frankish *hattjan (“to hate”) (compare Middle English hetien). More at hate.
Used in a sentence
“I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.”
“The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.”
“Perhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Shockingly evil”7 letters
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