heinously
advEtymology From heinous + -ly.
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In a heinous manner.
- 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.1832, Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy, The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance, G. Henderson, Old Bailey, page 425: