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- the undeniable atrocity of the forced march of Cherokees known as the Trail of Tears
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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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- was appalled by the atrocity of Stalin's mass executions
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- wars often unleash a level of atrocity that would be unimaginable in peacetime
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The first known use of atrocity was in 1534
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