The phrase "hideous crime" refers to a very terrible and shocking wrongdoing. It describes an act that is extremely cruel, horrendous, or morally unacceptable. Full definition
Part of a series of self - portraits that the artist has made of herself in the prosthetically - aided guise of artists that are important to her — a «spiritual family album» that has included Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and August Sander — this piece transforms Wearing into Arthur Felig, aka Weegee, the legendary photographer of hideous crimes and the rubberneckers who gawk at them. (artspace.com)
The finest achievements of man and his most hideous crimes are alike spiritual acts. (religion-online.org)
The Aborigines of Australia suffered hideous crimes when European settlement took over. (religion-online.org)