Atrocity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ATROCITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a heinous act
• an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury
• a highly unpleasant or distasteful object
• Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.
• An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.
• the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
• an act of atrocious cruelty
• wickedness

Words related to ATROCITY

atrocities12 wickedness20

How to use ATROCITY in a sentence

• Immediately an atrocity was reported they applied to the authorities, and in every case received an affirmation that the deed had never taken place.
• Sharley did not commit the atrocity of fainting, but found herself thoroughly chilled and weak.
• But some, it seems, regard any atrocity in monarchs as if it had lost its nature by not being committed by low and vulgar agents.
• This prince, however, was in fact not incapable of this atrocity, and he had, moreover, sufficient motives for its commission.
• Indian warfare was of such peculiar atrocity that the employment of Indians as allies forbade any further hope of reconciliation.
• Women were butchered under circumstances of peculiar and diabolical atrocity.
• For perfidy and atrocity it has no equal in the annals of the world.
• He was capable of committing any kind of an atrocity.
• But what is it that really constitutes an atrocity? In a refugee shed, sleeping on the straw, we found an old woman of 88.
• Of course that merciful act would have constituted an atrocity, because it would have been a breach in the rules of the war game.
• They assiduously laboured to render life valueless in Ireland and property worthless, whilst no deed was too cowardly, no atrocity too barbarous, for them to praise.
• This foul torture was often heard of, and it has been whispered that women and even girls have been the victims of this atrocity.
• France has experienced both the spy and the atrocity.
• The governor and garrison of Hong-Kong were startled by a deed of atrocity and perfidy on the part of the Chinese.
• Infernal instruments have been devised, and such atrocity is displayed in the destruction of life as has not been seen by the eye of the world, nor heard by the ear of nations.
• It was perhaps the peculiar atrocity of his end which gave him so great a reputation for sanctity.
• Here was a callous wretch who would murder without a scruple a young and lovely woman and laugh at the recollection of the atrocity.
• He had had a great deal of talk with the other negroes about those bandits, and he was fully impressed with their capacity for atrocity.
• I have always, considered it an undisputed fact that the scene of this atrocity was at Berkeley Castle, in Gloucestershire.
• This Jones was supposed to be capable of any atrocity, however horrible, and a company of sixteen men was gathered up for the rescue of Branson.
• They were Mexicans, a hybrid mixture of Spanish atrocity and Indian cruelty.
• When chiefs of influence, guilty of atrocity and fraud, become objects of accusation, the ingredient is of course qualified so as to remove its fatal tendency.
• In commemoration of this atrocity, the church of St.
• Before leaving Coquilhatville, we send for the boy Epondo, who was rendered famous as an example of an atrocity by Mr.
• This order was executed with all the atrocity incident to the character of the savages, and the bodies of the victims were thrown into a well near their prison.
• Time had marvelously softened the atrocity of the act, and heightened its picturesque character.
• News of the atrocity has been delayed four months on its way to Europe, owing partly to the civil war in the United States, and partly to disturbances in Central America.

Similar words containing ATROC without suffix ity

atrocious11 latrociny14 atrocities12 latrocinia12 matrocliny17 patrocliny17 atrociously16 latrocinies13 latrocinium15 matroclinal15 matroclinic17 patroclinal15 patroclinic17 iatrochemist19 matroclinies16 matroclinous16 patroclinies16 patroclinous16 atrociousness15 iatrochemical22 iatrochemists20 iatrochemistry24 atrociousnesses17

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