atrocity
IPA: ʌtrˈɑsʌti
noun
- (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
- (countable) An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
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Examples of "atrocity" in Sentences
- The movie displayed content of atrocity.
- The atrocity of the crime scared many people.
- What the man did was absolutely our of atrocity.
- One of the sites of the worse atrocity was the city of Hue.
- The horror of the atrocity of the film astounded the audience.
- The road to disgraces like the Duke atrocity is short and direct.
- This manifesto was the only acknowledgement of the atrocity in English.
- The first atrocity in the revolution was not the murder of the Patriarch.
- His transformation, his finding himself, after witnessing a horrible atrocity, is a miracle.
- People please flood our government with calls and letters that this atrocity is unacceptable.
- He brought up what he called an atrocity: the case of Isa Mohammed Ali, 71, who he said died after suffocating on tear gas.
- 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.
- Just an observation – I notice the VDT is busy, but will not show his/her face to defend this latest atrocity from the right.
- 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.
- 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.