heinously


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hei·nous

 (hā′nəs)
adj.
1. Wicked; abominable: a heinous crime.
2. Informal Very unappealing; ugly: showed up wearing that heinous shirt.
[Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from hair, to hate, from Frankish *hatjan.]
hei′nous·ly adv.
hei′nous·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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