What's the difference between grisly and heinous?

Grisly


Definition:

  • (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She responded with Mrs Schofield's GCSE , which heaped up all the grisly murders in Shakespeare.
  • (2) The tobacco giant Philip Morris has launched legal action against the Australian government over the country's plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes.
  • (3) The grisly conditions facing UK retailers were underlined when DSG, which operates Currys and PC World , revealed a big drop in sales of TVs and computers.
  • (4) Reports of the grisly death of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of London first reached David Cameron as he travelled with François Hollande from an EU summit in Brussels to Paris.
  • (5) House of Cards' fictional portrayal of the grisly, dark side of US politics has also proved to be a winner at the White House.
  • (6) Similarly, when addressing a jury, prosecutors often emphasize the most grisly part of a murder to ensure a speedy conviction.
  • (7) Yet grisly pictures on Xinhua's website show a shirtless man covered in purple splotches lying on a hospital bed, his left arm awkwardly splayed across his chest.
  • (8) Demonstrators chanted “We are not folding up our umbrellas” in a reference to the wave of protests earlier this month when tens of thousands of Poles gathered in grisly weather to challenge a proposed blanket ban on abortion, forcing Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) to throw out the proposals.
  • (9) If the Labour party doesn’t rid itself of its morbid symptoms and start to convince the public it is interested in government, then we could see something else Gramsci was familiar with: the grisly spectre of Conservative hegemony.
  • (10) It is a grisly conclusion to Harris's immensely long and hugely successful career, which began when he arrived in London from Perth in 1952 switching from art to cabaret and then children's TV.
  • (11) Months of brutal repression that included mass round-ups, a succession of show trials, lengthy prison sentences and grisly executions has emasculated the Green movement.
  • (12) Any police force would be shaken by the sight, but the grisly tableau's arrangement seemed designed to instill terror in young officers from parts of southern Mexico where superstition and belief in sorcery are common.
  • (13) Partisan or biased as some of this grisly account-keeping may be, it has the virtue of keeping alive the idea that justice may eventually be done and that, when that time comes, there will be evidence available that will enable it to be done.
  • (14) The peculiar speech even begins to feel almost comical, in a dark way, as the subject matter becomes more grisly.
  • (15) Teenagers thought Al Pacino in Scarface and the cast of Reservoir Dogs were cool, despite their grisly fates.
  • (16) At newsstands, headlines cry out details of the previous day's grisly crimes.
  • (17) These grisly events are not occurring on the tourist beaches of Spain’s Costa del Sol, the French Riviera or the sheltered resorts of southern Turkey so beloved of well-to-do European holidaymakers.
  • (18) They routinely disseminate grisly execution videos over social media, intending to terrorise their rivals and the nation at large.
  • (19) Last month the creators of the game Hitman drew widespread criticism for a grisly promotional trailer that showed the main (male) character slaughtering a group of S&M killer nuns.
  • (20) Choi's post includes all of the grisly details that made their way into the American press: Jang and five of his aides were stripped naked, thrown into a giant cage, and "entirely devoured" by 120 Manchurian hunting dogs that had been starved for three days.

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.