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1
the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay
- George Orwell's novel 1984 captures the atrociousness of tyranny
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- badness,
- baseness,
- depravedness,
- depravity,
- diabolicalness,
- evil,
- evilness,
- foulness,
- heinousness,
- immorality,
- iniquitousness,
- iniquity,
- invidiousness,
- sinfulness,
- ungodliness,
- viciousness,
- vileness,
- wickedness
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2
the state or quality of being utterly evil
- the unspeakable atrociousness of the mass genocide that was perpetrated in that African nation
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3
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
- for sheer atrociousness the murders committed by Jack the Ripper occupy a special place in the annals of crime
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“Atrociousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atrociousness. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
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