as in badness
the state or quality of being utterly evil
the diabolicalness of the serial killer's acts, which included cannibalism, defy belief
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atrocity
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The evening news reported on atrocities committed by Russian forces in Chechnya and on corruption schemes that implicated top officials in the Kremlin.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge atrocities in the late 1970s were recognized as genocide against the Cham and Vietnamese minorities, with convictions at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Diabolicalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diabolicalness. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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