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• The perpetrators of this atrocity must be brought to book.From the entry bring to book
• Ninety four years ago, one of the great atrocities of the 20th century began.2009 April 24, Barack Obama, Statement of President Barack Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day. From the entry Meds Yeghern
• During the voyage, the Japanese committed an atrocity that no Wake Islander learned about until later.2003, John Wukovits, Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, New American Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207. From the entry Wake Islander
• The state of atrocity is characterized by rapism, the fundamental ideology and practice of patriarchy.1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence-- Realizing the Archaic Future. From the entry rapism
• Catholic atrocities during the Inquisition are well documented and cannot be denied.1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4. From the entry inquisition
• In Unity under your direction has added one more atrocity to its list of many.1980 November/December, William Coulter, “Feedback”, in In Unity, Los Angeles, Calif.: the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community…. From the entry penpersonship
• The Turkish population was subjected to horrible atrocities by the retreating troops and accompanying civilian Christian mobs.1979, P. K. Jensen, “The Greco-Turkish war, 1920–1922”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 10, number 4, Cambridge…. From the entry mob
• They have beautiful eyes, they’ve cried onscreen, they’ve committed atrocities.”2023 May 10, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, “What does babygirl mean? And why does it refer to middle-aged men?”, in The Daily Dot. From the entry babygirl
• Viewing RtoP through the narrow lens of Libya obscures its primary commitment to ‘militaryless’ prevention of mass atrocities.2011 April 4, “The Responsibility To Protect in Libya and beyond”, in The Malta Independent, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2024. From the entry militaryless
• Atrocities on live Americans like beheading prisoners on Wake Island, the mutilation of bodies at other Pacific Island battles.2006, Fred L. Ward, Picking up the Pieces: The Battle of Iwo Jima, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry mop up
• Stanford University's new president, angered by what he calls a "journalistic atrocity," wants student financial support withdrawn from the Stanford Daily.1970, "Stanford prexy asks cut in paper support", (Ellensburg, Washington) Daily Record (UPI), 8 October 1970, vol. 70, no. 238, p. 3…. From the entry prexy
• Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth the prince no blister of combustion.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry minorate
• Atrocities of the most vicious kind were justified by the watchwords: "This is war!" "Might is Right." "Necessity knows no law."1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry watchword
• Not, of course, that these are anything superextra in the way of atrocities when the Hun really gets going.1918, The Bystander, Volume 60, page 144. From the entry superextra
• “Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Countess Explains”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company…. From the entry faugh
• Violent demonstrations have spread from Southport to London, Hartlepool, Manchester and Aldershot after the stabbing atrocity at a children’s holiday club on Monday.2024 August 1, Josh Halliday, Neha Gohil, “Police in England urged to protect mosques as far right plans more rallies”, in The Guardian…. From the entry Southport
• There are Latin tags, tempus edax rerum, as just one example of verbal atrocities and general waffleness, which I fear but seem unable to avoid.2021, Richard Beard, “Separation”, in Sad Little Men: How Public Schools Failed Britain, London: Vintage, →ISBN. From the entry waffleness
• Tim Cook talks a big game, but at the end of the day, his company is allowing the surveillance-capitalism atrocities it claims to oppose.2019 January 31, Ian Bogost, “Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy”, in The Atlantic. From the entry surveillance capitalism
• Japanese soldiers committed a number of atrocities on 19 December, when the aid post at the Silesian Mission near Sau Ki Wan was overrun.2017 August 5, Merriam Press, World War 2 In Review No. 11, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN. From the entry Sau Ki Wan
• Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border.2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in The Irish Times, page 4. From the entry troubles
• For Pol Pot or Hitler, retrospective diagnosis of a mental disorder allows us to come to terms with atrocity by explaining intent as an aberration of the mind.November 25, 2021; Jutel, Annemarie; Russell, Ginny; "Past, present and imaginary: Pathography in all its forms", Health, SAGE Publishing…. From the entry psychopathography
• In other words, Ballard's pseudo-scientific tales remap social history's penchant for psychoanalysing the impact of historical atrocity (World War II) by deflecting it onto another historical disaster (Vietnam).2016, Jeanette Baxter, J.G. Ballard's Surrealist Imagination, →ISBN. From the entry history repeats itself
• Bureaucracy and wider features of a division of labor also facilitates the “othering” and “enemying” associated with systemic violence and makes possible the professionalization of atrocity.2014, Robert Shanafelt, Nathan W. Pino, Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities, page 184. From the entry enemy
• A balaclava'd figure, speaking in Sulaimitian Arabic, claimed responsibility for the atrocity on behalf of a rebel group still loyal to the memory of the ousted Gaddafi regime.2013, Chris Ryan, Masters of War. From the entry Sulaimitian Arabic
• But the cueing of atrocity memory through substitutional representation can also be deployed to premediate events– in other words to frame the story before the event even begins .2013, Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin, War and Media, page 1882. From the entry premediate
• Political platforms are rife with tu quoques: each political party accuses the other of some atrocity or oversight wihout responding to any of the charges laid against them.2005, Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking, McGill-Queen’s University Press…. From the entry tu quoque
• The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.1945, George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism. From the entry disapprove
• The denial then lives on during the different stages of the genocide and is invoked continuously by the perpetrator whenever its actions are criticized or labeled as atrocities and unlawful.2013, Vahagn Avedian, “Recognition, Responsibility and Reconciliation: The Trinity of the Armenian Genocide”, in Europa Ethnica, volume…. From the entry denial

Meaning of atrocity

1. noun An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
2. noun The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
3. noun An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.

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Questions about atrocity in a sentence

How do you use atrocity in a sentence?

Atrocity is used as a noun. For example: “The regime is guilty of mass atrocities including forced displacement and the use of chemical weapons.”

What is a short sentence with atrocity?

““Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities.”

What does atrocity mean?

Atrocity means an extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.