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Synonyms for atrocity
əˈtrɒs ɪ tiatroc·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousnessnoun

    the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

    Synonyms:
    atrociousness, barbarousness, barbarism, brutality, inhumanity, heinousness, barbarity, savagery

  2. atrocity, inhumanitynoun

    an act of atrocious cruelty

    Synonyms:
    barbarity, inhumaneness, heinousness, barbarousness, atrociousness, inhumanity

Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. atrocitynoun

    Synonyms:
    heinousness, atrociousness, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness

  2. atrocitynoun

    Synonyms:
    atrocious crime, flagitious villany

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. atrocitynoun

    Synonyms:
    heinousness, enormity, nefariousness, flagrancy, crime, outrage

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "atrocity":

    outrage, ugliness, cruelty, monstrosity, barbarity

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#18006cruelty
#20114outrage
#27217brutality
#48956atrocity
#59093ugliness
#65166savagery
#66851barbarism
#74318inhumanity
#76302monstrosity
#108868barbarity

How to use atrocity in a sentence?

  1. Jose Miguel Vivanco:

    False positive killings amount to one of the worst episodes of mass atrocity in the Western Hemisphere in recent years, and there is mounting evidence that many senior army officers bear responsibility, yet the army officials in charge at the time of the killings have escaped justice and even ascended to the top of the military command, including the current heads of the army and armed forces.

  2. Ryan Bundy:

    We went up there to prevent the atrocity from happening to begin with, and if people would have listened to us, the Hammonds wouldn't have to have gone through this suffering.

  3. Nile Gardiner:

    This is a terrorist with a lot of blood on her hands … it’s going to be extremely difficult for the Jordanian government to justify this to the victims of this terrorist atrocity several years ago, jordan has been a very, very important ally to the United States in the war against Islamist terror, but now its position is going to be gravely weakened by this deal with ISIS.

  4. Vish Burra:

    This individual does not work for Mr. Paladino’s campaign in any fashion, he is not the deputy treasurer, carl Paladino strongly condemns the atrocity of child pornography.

  5. Assem Barua:

    There is fierce race going on amongst all IAS, IPS and other govt officers as who can do more atrocity on common people by getting poisonous covid vaccine injected in their body overlooking humanity and get fast promotion besides many other rewards


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