atrocity
noun
[ əˈtrɒsɪti ]
• an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
• "a textbook which detailed war atrocities"
Similar:
act of barbarity,
act of brutality,
act of savagery,
act of wickedness,
cruelty,
abomination,
enormity,
outrage,
horror,
monstrosity,
obscenity,
iniquity,
violation,
crime,
transgression,
wrong,
wrongdoing,
offence,
injury,
affront,
scandal,
injustice,
abuse,
malfeasance,
tort,
barbarity,
barbarism,
brutality,
savagery,
inhumanity,
wickedness,
badness,
baseness,
evil,
heinousness,
villainy,
lawlessness,
malefaction,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘cruelty’): from French atrocité or Latin atrocitas, from atrox, atroc- ‘cruel’.
