Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - heinous
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Heinous
heinous
If you describe something such as a crime as heinous, you mean that it is extremely evil or horrible. (FORMAL) They are capable of the most heinous acts. = evil, monstrous ADJ: usu ADJ n HEIR (heirs) An heir is someone who has the right to inherit a person’s money, property, or title when that person dies. ...the heir to the throne. N-COUNT: oft with poss, oft N to n
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French hainus, ~, from haine hate, from hair to hate, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German haz hate — more at hate Date: 14th century hatefully or shockingly evil ; abominable • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. (of a crime or criminal) utterly odious or wicked. Derivatives heinously adv. heinousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF ha{iuml}neus ult. f. ha{iuml}r to hate f. Frank. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. отвратительный, мерзкий, гнусный, ужасный heinous crime —- отвратительное (гнусное, ужасное) преступление heinous charges —- ужасные (гнусные обвинения ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj formal very shocking and immoral (a heinous crime) - heinously adv - heinousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1385, from O.Fr. haineus, from haine "hatred," from hair "to hate," from Frank. (cf. O.S. haton "to hate"). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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