atrocity

atrocity
I noun abomination, abuse, act of ferocity, atrocious crime, atrocitas, barbarity, deed of savagery, ferity, ferocity, fiendishness, flagitious villainy, flagitiousness, flagrancy, gross offense, heinousness, holocaust, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, malevolence, maltreatment, mercilessness, monstrosity, nefariousness, nefas, res atrox, ruthlessness, savagery, truculence, victimization, villainy, wantonly wicked conduct, wickedness foreign phrases:
- Patria potestas in pietate debet, non in atrocitate, consistere. — Paternal power should consist of affection not of atrocity
II index abuse (physical misuse), cruelty, delinquency (misconduct), misdeed, vice, wrong

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


atrocity
n.
An act of extreme cruelty, brutality, and wickedness.
adj.
atrocious

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