Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Appalling or atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness.
- noun An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
- noun A specific act of extreme heinousness or cruelty; an atrocious deed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
- noun An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality or state of being
atrocious ; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty. - noun countable An extremely
cruel act; ahorrid act of injustice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act of atrocious cruelty
- noun the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
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Examples
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He brought up what he called an atrocity: the case of Isa Mohammed Ali, 71, who he said died after suffocating on tear gas.
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Just an observation – I notice the VDT is busy, but will not show his/her face to defend this latest atrocity from the right.
Think Progress » Florida Lawmaker Attempts To Deny Tax Credit To Movies Filmed With Gay Characters 2010
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His transformation, his finding himself, after witnessing a horrible atrocity, is a miracle.
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And any protest against an atrocity is a sign of an active, thinking society, which is important, and in a democracy like India even more so.
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The latest Borders atrocity is actually only the next logical step in a sorry progression that began when publishers started allowing the marketing department to tell editorial which books they could sell to the bookstores.
September 14th, 2008 fastfwd 2008
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And any protest against an atrocity is a sign of an active, thinking society, which is important, and in a democracy like India even more so.
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It would indeed be a sad state of affairs if we have been censored like that, but then no atrocity is a surprise these days.
Archive 2006-03-01 2006
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People please flood our government with calls and letters that this atrocity is unacceptable.
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The road to disgraces like the Duke atrocity is short and direct.
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The road to disgraces like the Duke atrocity is short and direct.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “Reason”, Sam Francis and the Duke atrocity. 2007
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