The phrase "heinous looking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears extremely wicked or villainous.
Example: "The painting had a heinous looking figure that sent shivers down my spine."
Alternatives: "atrocious appearance" or "villainous look."
Doran's aluminum collage shows images of a topless woman holding a cigarette, a field of men bowhunting, and a vintage-looking advertisement of a heinous looking tomato creation.
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Even though he wasn't heinous looking, I still wanted him to wear a ski mask.
It's half curly, half frizzy, and pretty heinous to look at so I'm gonna go ahead and do my hair.
One set of chrome-colored canisters, Ms. Boym said, was "really heinous, because they look metallic and they aren't, and because they're really heavy".
"My brain desperately reworked its perspective looking for something less heinous," one wrote.
The limo dropped him off in front of a heinous-looking commercial building on Wilshire Boulevard.
Those heinous dress shirts that look plain white when you've got your suit on but have a jaunty design on the non-bib area should be eradicated with extreme prejudice.
When I walked in one of the group's co-founders, Venien, was dialing in a heinous tone on what looked like a model of cheap-ass bass that's synonymous with shitty high school rock bands.
This is not sensationalism -- the Maysles were not looking for any of this material -- but it does have a heinous act at its center.
And even though she, in retrospect, was decidedly heinous-looking, I was thrilled that she was impressed.
