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Definition of atrocity in English: atrocitynounPlural atrocities əˈtrɒsɪtiəˈtrɑsədi 1An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury. （常伴有暴力伤害的）恶行；暴行 a textbook which detailed war atrocities 一本详细描绘战争暴行的教科书。 Example sentencesExamples - They are forced to commit atrocities against their own families and communities.
- The region has been the scene of some of the worst atrocities in the five-year-old civil war in Congo.
- Some of them also said they had been forced to witness or commit atrocities, including rape and murder.
- Much of the fighting and many atrocities against civilians took place in Bosnia.
- Their endurance in battle soon became as legendary as their involvement in a number of war crimes and atrocities.
- The scale of the atrocity may actually have speeded up the collective urge to absorb the shock and get back to business.
- The year since the invasion has been marked by further war crimes and atrocities.
- Have people forgotten who started the war and committed countless atrocities during it?
- And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion.
- The effect of an atrocity of such a magnitude on the government and public should never be underestimated.
- The father of one of the Bali bombing victims spoke yesterday of his anger at the amount of publicity being given to those arrested for the atrocity.
- Rights advocates say that the number of atrocities against women in the country is increasing.
- Empathy is the missing psychological link in people who commit hate crimes and other atrocities.
- Meat eaters think this is a joke but it's not funny to people who believe it's an atrocity to eat murdered animals.
- The entire war is an atrocity, a war crime, launched on the basis of lies.
- Terrorists responsible for atrocities, mass murderers and child killers will serve their entire lives in jail.
- In the old days there was no way of taking photographs of war atrocities and popping them on the net for all to see.
- Given that war itself is an atrocity the scene you described in your article still makes a citizen sick with shame and indignation.
- Those responsible for atrocities against the Acehnese should be brought to trial.
- It was a brave new world recovering from the atrocities and bleakness of war.
Synonyms 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 Law malfeasance, tort barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery, inhumanity, cruelty, wickedness, badness, baseness, evil, iniquity, horror, heinousness, villainy, lawlessness, crime, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing, injustice, abuse Law malfeasance rare malefaction - 1.1humorous A highly unpleasant or distasteful object.
〈幽默〉令人极不愉快（或庸俗）的事物 atrocities in cheap red nylon 廉价红尼龙制成的劣质产品。 Example sentencesExamples - I remember thinking that if I were blindfolded and forced to taste and identify this carbonated atrocity, I would have guessed it was antifreeze, aftershave or pond water.
- While some of my colleagues are asking kids to change out of shirts that expose their midriffs and skirts that fall ten inches or so above the knee, I usually find myself blissfully unaware of the tasteless atrocities that I am supposedly bombarded with on a daily basis.
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense 'cruelty'): from French atrocité or Latin atrocitas, from atrox, atroc- 'cruel'. Rhymesanfractuosity, animosity, bellicosity, curiosity, fabulosity, ferocity, generosity, grandiosity, impecuniosity, impetuosity, jocosity, luminosity, monstrosity, nebulosity, pomposity, ponderosity, porosity, preciosity, precocity, reciprocity, religiosity, scrupulosity, sinuosity, sumptuosity, velocity, verbosity, virtuosity, viscosity Definition of atrocity in US English: atrocitynounəˈträsədēəˈtrɑsədi 1An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury. （常伴有暴力伤害的）恶行；暴行 scenes of hardship and atrocity 充满苦难和暴虐的场景。 Example sentencesExamples - They are forced to commit atrocities against their own families and communities.
- The region has been the scene of some of the worst atrocities in the five-year-old civil war in Congo.
- The scale of the atrocity may actually have speeded up the collective urge to absorb the shock and get back to business.
- Some of them also said they had been forced to witness or commit atrocities, including rape and murder.
- Have people forgotten who started the war and committed countless atrocities during it?
- Terrorists responsible for atrocities, mass murderers and child killers will serve their entire lives in jail.
- Rights advocates say that the number of atrocities against women in the country is increasing.
- Given that war itself is an atrocity the scene you described in your article still makes a citizen sick with shame and indignation.
- The effect of an atrocity of such a magnitude on the government and public should never be underestimated.
- Empathy is the missing psychological link in people who commit hate crimes and other atrocities.
- The entire war is an atrocity, a war crime, launched on the basis of lies.
- Their endurance in battle soon became as legendary as their involvement in a number of war crimes and atrocities.
- And so they became a marginal but prophetic group willing to testify with their lives to the atrocity of war and coercion.
- In the old days there was no way of taking photographs of war atrocities and popping them on the net for all to see.
- Much of the fighting and many atrocities against civilians took place in Bosnia.
- The year since the invasion has been marked by further war crimes and atrocities.
- The father of one of the Bali bombing victims spoke yesterday of his anger at the amount of publicity being given to those arrested for the atrocity.
- Those responsible for atrocities against the Acehnese should be brought to trial.
- It was a brave new world recovering from the atrocities and bleakness of war.
- Meat eaters think this is a joke but it's not funny to people who believe it's an atrocity to eat murdered animals.
Synonyms 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 barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery, inhumanity, cruelty, wickedness, badness, baseness, evil, iniquity, horror, heinousness, villainy, lawlessness, crime, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing, injustice, abuse - 1.1humorous A highly unpleasant or distasteful object.
〈幽默〉令人极不愉快（或庸俗）的事物 the house was a split-level atrocity Example sentencesExamples - I remember thinking that if I were blindfolded and forced to taste and identify this carbonated atrocity, I would have guessed it was antifreeze, aftershave or pond water.
- While some of my colleagues are asking kids to change out of shirts that expose their midriffs and skirts that fall ten inches or so above the knee, I usually find myself blissfully unaware of the tasteless atrocities that I am supposedly bombarded with on a daily basis.
OriginMid 16th century (in the sense ‘cruelty’): from French atrocité or Latin atrocitas, from atrox, atroc- ‘cruel’. |