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n. Appalling or atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness.

n. An appalling or atrocious act, situation, or object, especially an act of unusual or illegal cruelty inflicted by an armed force on civilians or prisoners.

n.  The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.

n.  An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.

n. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

n. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

n. The state or quality of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.

n. A specific act of extreme heinousness or cruelty; an atrocious deed.

n. an act of atrocious cruelty

n. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

"He brought up what he called an atrocity: the case of Isa Mohammed Ali, 71, who he said died after suffocating on tear gas."

inhumanity    inhumaneness   

criminality    brutality    heinousness   

atrocious   

wickedness    cruelty    outrage    monstrosity   

animosity    curiosity    ferocity    generosity    monstrosity    religiosity    velocity    viscosity   

outrage    massacre    treachery    barbarity    wickedness    robbery    indignity    oppression    perfidy    torture