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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 atrocityII index abuse (physical misuse), cruelty, delinquency (misconduct), misdeed, vice, wrong
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.An act of extreme cruelty, brutality, and wickedness.adj.atrocious
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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