atrocity
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atrociousness, awfulness, dreadfulness, frightfulness, ghastliness, grisliness, gruesomeness, hideousness, horridness, horror, monstrosity, repulsiveness
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However, South Korea sees the Rising Sun flag as a symbol of Japanese imperialism and war atrocities. — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, "'Symbol of the devil': Why South Korea wants Japan to ban the Rising Sun flag from the Tokyo Olympics," 6 Sep. 2019 But as Power herself would soon learn, when Americans were presented with the hammer of military force, many atrocities began to look like nails. — Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, "The Fog of Intervention," 4 Sep. 2019 People who are proud of their Southern culture without denying its atrocities. — Melanie Hamlett, Glamour, "Designing Women Was a Series Ahead of Its Time. In 2019, It’s Still Revolutionary," 26 Aug. 2019 When there are atrocities like the ones in El Paso or Dayton, the Democrats will propose new measures that would have done nothing to prevent those crimes and insist that they should be enacted anyway, for . . — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, "On Gun Control, Once More from the Top," 9 Aug. 2019 What atrocity could drive a woman to sacrifice her own offspring rather than submit the child to it? — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "Toni Morrison’s Kaleidoscopic Vision of Literature," 6 Aug. 2019 According to this theory, writes Katz, Jews are blamed for allegedly spearheading communist atrocities in Eastern Europe before the Nazis took control from the Soviet Union. — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, "In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites," 30 July 2019 Immediately after the war, some in Germany worked to absolve themselves of responsibility for war atrocities and construct the notion of German victimhood or the power of the Soviet state in defeating fascism. — Gail Fletcher, National Geographic, "The forgotten ‘wolf children’ of World War II," 29 July 2019 Destroying wild habitats is simply a climate atrocity. — Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz India, "Tigers in a southern reserve are victims of India’s aggressive push towards nuclear energy," 15 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'atrocity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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