Synonyms:
atrocity, inhumanity
Meaning: an act of atrocious cruelty
Synonyms:
atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
Meaning: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
Usage examples
I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.
But as I quite agree with you as to the atrocity of such conduct, I have suppressed the Georgina.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect between the disaster and the atrocity.
In the early days of her Costaguana life, the little lady used to clench her hands with exasperation at not being able to take the public affairs of the country as seriously as the incidental atrocity of methods deserved.