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  • 71atrocity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. enormity; outrage. See malevolence, badness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Brutality] Syn. inhumanity, wickedness, barbarity; see cruelty . 2. [A cruel deed] Syn. crime, offense, outrage, atrocious deed,… …

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  • 72enormity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wickedness, atrociousness; atrocity, outrage; immensity, enormousness, greatness. See guilt. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Vice] Syn. atrocity, outrage, depravity, wickedness; see atrocity 2 , crime 1 , evil …

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  • 73evil — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Immorality Nouns 1. (something evil) evil, ill, harm, hurt; mischief, nuisance; disadvantage, drawback; disaster, casualty, mishap, misfortune, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, adversity; abomination,… …

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  • 74atrociousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of passing all moral bounds: atrocity, enormity, heinousness, monstrousness. See GOOD. 2. The quality or state of being flagrant: atrocity, egregiousness, enormity, flagrance, flagrancy, flagrantness,… …

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  • 75monstrousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of passing all moral bounds: atro ciousness, atrocity, enormity, heinousness. See GOOD …

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  • 76heinous — hei|nous [ˈheınəs] adj formal [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: haineus, from haine hate ] 1.) very shocking and immoral ▪ a heinous crime 2.) AmE spoken informal extremely bad ▪ The food in the cafeteria is pretty heinous. >heinousness… …

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  • 77heinous — late 14c., from O.Fr. hainos inconvenient, awkward; hateful, unpleasant; odious (Mod.Fr. haineux), from haine hatred, from hair to hate, from Frankish *hatjan (Cf. O.S. haton, O.E. hatian to hate; see HATE (Cf. hate) (v.)). Related: Heinously …

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  • 78heinous — [ heɪnəs, hi:nəs] adjective utterly odious or wicked: a heinous crime. Derivatives heinously adverb heinousness noun Origin ME: from OFr. haineus, from hair to hate , of Gmc origin …

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  • 79atrocity — n. 1. Heinousness, atrociousness, horrible cruelty, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness, savagery, ferocity. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany, horror, enormity, act of ferocity …

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  • 80enormity — n. 1. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, heinousness, nefariousness, outrageousness, wickedness. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany …

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