What's the difference between barbaric and heinous?

Barbaric


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
  • (2) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (3) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
  • (4) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (5) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
  • (6) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (7) Alexis Tsipras, the former student radical who leads the party, has called the latest €130bn rescue plan "barbaric" and "an agreement of poverty and wretchedness".
  • (8) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
  • (9) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
  • (10) And as Kelly observed, Walker’s position is massively unpopular, and for good reason: the idea that a woman should be coerced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term even at the risk of her life is the purest barbarism.
  • (11) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
  • (12) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
  • (13) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
  • (14) None of those medical manuscripts from that collection was preserved after a barbaric setting fire on the Oriental Institute.
  • (15) "Barbarism," wrote Alain Finkielkraut not long ago, "is not the inheritance of our pre-history.
  • (16) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
  • (17) Anyone in any doubt about this organisation [Isis] can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is.
  • (18) These barbaric terrorists have lost 30% of the territory they once held in Iraq.
  • (19) His barbarism against his own people created an enormous vacuum.
  • (20) The ruling African National Congress's youth league described the video as "barbaric".

Heinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
  • (2) Now the referee is over giving Jose Mourinho a ticking-off for the heinous crime of leaving his technical area to give instruction to Chivu.
  • (3) It’s a reasonable question, given that its leaders and foot soldiers have, by their heinous acts, made clear that the prospect of indictment is an irrelevance.
  • (4) One man, who declined to be named as he was reporting for jury duty at the courthouse, said the trial would be a chance to show the world what American justice means, even for the most heinous of crimes.
  • (5) The secretary of state, Hillary Clinton , said: "The United States is deeply disappointed … Today, we remember those whose lives were lost on 21 December 1988 and we extend our deepest sympathies to the families who live each day with the loss of their loved ones due to this heinous crime."
  • (6) Evidence indicates that local political networks were involved in the planning and execution of a heinous crime.
  • (7) Each decade in Britain appears to contain a symbolic, heinous murder – a crime so awful that it reflects a nation’s pathologies as well as its fears.
  • (8) Addressing a group of veterans in Houston, he said there was "no doubt who was responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime".
  • (9) We’re not here to argue it wasn’t a heinous act against men who dedicated their lives to the church,” he said.
  • (10) Within hours of their death, Egyptian authorities accused them of being part of a gang of thieves that targeted foreigners, and an alleged house raid linked them to a heinous act : the torture and murder of an Italian researcher named Giulio Regeni .
  • (11) "[The ISI] will leave no stone unturned in helping to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice," it said.
  • (12) There is nothing in Islam that could justify such heinous acts , and none of those involved in this particular crime cited Islam as their motive.
  • (13) But now, when motivation and depth of “heinous and cruel” behaviour are directly at issue, the personality of Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the biggest mitigating factor .
  • (14) The Muslim Brotherhood's leader, Mohamed Badie, had earlier stoked tensions by calling Sisi's overthrow of Morsi a more heinous crime than the destruction of Islam's most sacred shrine.
  • (15) "It is becoming clear that it comes down simply to which side of the county line you were standing in when you committed a murder that can put you on death row – it's nothing to do with the heinousness of the crime.
  • (16) The regime of Bashar al-Assad stands accused of a heinous attack using chemical weapons, on 21 August, in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.
  • (17) Last year, days after the Assad regime's heinous gas attacks had killed hundreds, it was revealed that the CIA had helped Saddam Hussein with his own chemical weapons slaughter in 1988.
  • (18) Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - police Read more “I denied all and each of the allegations in turn [to police] and in detail and categorised them as false and untrue and, in whole, a heinous calumny,” said Proctor’s statement.
  • (19) I feel quite happy to be asking whether there are certain ways of behaving with the privilege that your life has given you that might be less helpful to the rest of society.” Also inescapable, and uncomfortable, was the fact that, for all their revolting views - and ultimately heinous acts that play out in that room of the country pub, the boys were actually rather fun – their jokes were funny, they were clever and charming.
  • (20) "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a statement.