Synonyms for atrocity
əˈtrɒs ɪ tiatroc·i·ty

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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

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1. atrocitynoun

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

2. atrocitynoun

   Synonyms:
   atrocious crime, flagitious villany

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1. atrocitynoun

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "atrocity":

   outrage, ugliness, cruelty, monstrosity, barbarity

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1. Volodymyr Zelensky:

   People, children are under the wreckage, atrocity ! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror ?

2. George Steiner:

   Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

3. Lois McMaster Bujold:

   Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

4. Benedict Cumberbatch:

   I can’t speak today, at this very proud moment of my life, on this extraordinary platform, without acknowledging the obvious of what is happening in Ukraine and to show my support for the people of Ukraine, and my support for the people of Russia who are opposing the kleptocracy and the idiocy of their rulers to try and halt the progression of this atrocity.

5. Seneca Scott:

   If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.