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heinously

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hei·nous  (hns)
adj.
Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime.
[Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from hair, to hate, from Frankish *hatjan.]
heinous·ly adv.
heinous·ness n.
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Adv.1.heinously - in a terribly evil manner; "the child was heinously murdered"
monstrously
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heinously
adv → auf abscheuliche Weise


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