Thesaurus
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atrocity
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atrocity
English
Noun
Sense: an act of great injustice, unfairness, or extreme cruelty
Synonyms
atrocity
depravity
infamy
iniquity
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outrage
turpitude
wickedness
wrong
Hypernyms
injustice
misdeed
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Hyponyms
crime against humanity
massacre
war crime
Further reading
“
945. vice
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
atrocity
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.