heinous

I hope they catch the person responsible for that heinous crime.

The perpetrators of this heinous act must be brought to justice.

Perhaps burdened by the weight of history, talk of the heinous 2-2 draw in 2002, or the magnitude of the fixture, Scotland seemed spooked in the early throes.

Any murder is gruesome but this one was especially heinous.

Tom was the victim of a heinous crime.

Spoiling an ending is a heinous crime against humanity.