atrociousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for atrociousness
Noun
  • Kelly Walker, 29, is charged with child abuse, cruelty to animals and the killing and torture of an animal.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • On Wednesday morning, David Reid, 28, of Winsted turned himself in at police headquarters and was arrested on an outstanding warrant charging him with one count of cruelty to animals.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And Laurie pretty much tells her all of that, much to Kate’s horror.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • As the friendly Brits look on in horror, Alex is detained by the conductor, who locks her up in the laundry room.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • How could an empathetic person commit such atrocities?
    Ross Overline, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Kirchner had, a year earlier, backed sanctions for clergymen who publicly opposed the government’s human rights policies, including his decision to annul laws pardoning dictatorship-era atrocities.
    Federico Perelmuter, The Dial, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Featuring works by renowned photojournalists and archival footage, the exhibit serves as a record of war crimes committed eight decades apart yet eerily similar in brutality.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Atrociousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atrociousness. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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