The former involved concealment, or slaying a man by night or when asleep, and was a heinous crime. The latter was not a disgrace, if the killer acknowledged his deed, but he was subject to vengeance or demand for compensation.
Digital Journal: Op-Ed: A word about war and ‘heinous’ crimes, a letter to Roxanne James
Op-Ed: A word about war and ‘heinous’ crimes, a letter to Roxanne James
For heinous say: /ˈheɪ.nəs/ like greyness — ɴᴏᴛ /ˈhaɪ.nəs/ like dryness — ɴᴏʀ /ˈhiː.ni.əs/ like Phineas The Canadian speaker in the first clip is using the phoneme we refer to as the PRICE vowel. This phoneme is by convention normatively written as the diphthong /aɪ/ in both Received Pronunciation and General American, but the exact phonetics for that phoneme vary by ...
There are words which are like bravery but which express some degree of the speaker's disagreement with the morals, ideology or manners of the subject, words such as: impudence, gall, nerve, audacity, brazenness, insolence or effrontery. Sometimes heinous perpetrators have such qualities, and sometimes they are cowards.
From "Komatsu and the Coon: A Japanese Convicted of a Heinous Offense" in the Los Angeles [California] Herald (): She [Mrs. Johnson] testified that when she entered her room she found that the defendant [Komatsu] had thrown her daughter across a trunk and held his hand over her mouth, while her dress was disarranged.
Bold words from the same guy who, in the same dictionary, argued that systematize (the actual word in use) should be rendered as systemize for consistency with legalize, modernize, and civilize, and insisted that the "true spelling" of tongue is tung, of heinous is hainous, and of opaque is opake. The turn against 'despatch' in Britain