Heinousness in a sentence as a noun

Much higher severity in terms of moral heinousness than say selling ***** on The Silk Road.

The degree of heinousness of the crime should determine the punishment, not whether the accused deserves a trial.

Though this is obviously not in the same realm of heinousness as that the precedent is the same. You can't legally indemnify yourself against that which society won't tolerate.

Public defenders take on clients without regard to the heinousness of their alleged crimes or the attorney's personal opinions of the defendant. This is also considered a good thing.

The heinousness of the crime does not justify giving up or overriding Constitutional freedoms. Never.

Part of that is the fault of the media and all of us on social media that focus on the heinousness of Harvey Weinstein's actions and our immediate move to dehumanize and vilify him. Weinstein was so far past the line that it might cloud were the line actually is.

I don't think anyone is trying to minimize the heinousness of child abuse. I think the point being made is that just because a particularly technique may be effective against a particular crime, doesn't mean that technique is morally or legally right.

All of your remaining friends and family will believe this, and the case will be so bad that your name will become associated around the world for the sheer heinousness and reprehensibility of the things you supposedly did. However the djinn is willing to bind himself to not doing this, but you have to pay him $1 right now.

I seem to recall reading something about the heinousness of debugging a half dozen different platform-specific scrollbar implementations... Thanks for all the info, this is awesome.

Google knows that it needs to maintain trust with its users and that's why it's only tackling a crime which has little controversy with respect to its heinousness and is almost trivial to detect, from a systems perspective. I'd far rather Google show good faith and help fight crime on their terms, rather than the government come in and start imposing safety regulations and make it obligatory.

He's not saying that the heinousness of the crime justifies it, he's saying that by accessing child porn from another country, the defendant opened himself to hacking risk and as such has no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Given the heinousness of some of the crimes they've aided and abetted, many against American citizens, most Americans would be on board with arresting their employees on arrival to the America or our allies.

Heinousness definitions

noun

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

See also: atrocity atrociousness barbarity barbarousness