heinousness
Example Sentences
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Michael Appleton masterminded Lincoln City’s win over Sunderland in the League One play-off semi-final and should be barracked in the street for that act of heinousness.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2021
It is people with bad public defenders who often wind up with these sentences, which means it wasn’t really about the heinousness of the crime.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2020
In 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that neither the governor nor the parole board could use a crime’s heinousness as the sole justification for denying parole to someone serving a life sentence.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2020
But it’s going to take a while for the rest of us to fully grasp the heinousness of the duplicity to which we were unwittingly subjected throughout many stages of our lives.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
Since Mary Anne never went anywhere, the punishment did not seem to compensate for the heinousness of the crime.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
