heinous act
Frequency: 7.10.8 per million words
Used to describe a profoundly wicked or shocking action.
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Examples (10)
- The court condemned the defendant for his heinous act of violence.
- Historians still debate the motivations behind such a heinous act.
- Forgiveness can be difficult in the face of such a heinous act.
- The community has been shaken by this heinous act of cruelty.
- We must ensure that such a heinous act is never repeated.
- Committing such a heinous act requires a complete lack of empathy.
- The dictator was responsible for numerous heinous acts against his own people.
- A memorial was built to remember the victims of that heinous act.
- How could anyone justify such a heinous act?
- The novel's villain is defined by a single heinous act that changes everything.