Heinous and Offensive

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Heinous adjective - Extremely wicked, deeply criminal.

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Offensive is a synonym for heinous in horrifying topic. In some cases you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Heinous".

Nearby Word: heinously

Offensive adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

Usage example: the smell of rotting food is quite offensive

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Heinous is a synonym for offensive. Sometimes you can use "Heinous" instead an adjective "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Even if the murder was filmed on video and the foreign murderer confessed to doing it at the scene, expect the murderer's home country's media to get a year (and a TV movie) out of it as they call it offensive that the foreign police would arrest their countryman for a heinous crime.

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Offensive and Heinous. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/heinous/offensive

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