Hei·nous a. Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.
It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. --Hooker.
How heinous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt! --Milton.
Syn: -- Monstrous; flagrant; flagitious; atrocious.
-- Hei*nous*ly, adv. -- Hei*nous*ness, n.
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heinously
adv : in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously
murdered" [syn: monstrously]