atrocities

Noun

atrocity (countable and uncountable, plural atrocities)

1. (countable) An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
   • to carry out / commit / perpetrate an atrocity

   Synonyms:

   depravity, outrage, turpitude

2. (uncountable) The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
   • Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour,1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482

   Synonyms:

   atrociousness, brutality, heinousness, enormity

3. (countable) An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
   • [S]ome of the printers were good singers and others good performers on the guitar and on that atrocity the accordeon—[…]1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XLIII, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 300

   Synonyms:

   abomination