atrocity

atrocity
n
1. wickedness, evilness, fiendishness, heinousness, nefariousness, flagitiousness, blackness, atrociousness; cruelty, barbarity, savagery, brutality, bloodlust, murderousness, malignity; ferocity, fierceness, truculence, inhumanity, monstrousness, ruthlessness; horribleness, horridness, hideousness, dreadfulness, terribleness, outrageousness.
2. crime, offense, violation, injury, hurt, harm, evil, wrong; enormity, monstrosity, horror, outrage; abomination, disgrace, shame, scandal.

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