heinously
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]heinously (comparative more heinously, superlative most heinously)
- In a heinous manner.
- 1832, Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, G. Henderson, Old Bailey, page 425:
- At length the ministering mutual friend obtained the consent of the Angersteins that Duval should offer, in person, the best and sincerest proofs of his self-abhorrence, of his repentance, and of his unspeakable admiration of the character and conduct of her whom he had so heinously distressed, and unmanlily assailed.
Translations
[edit]in a heinous manner