atrocity

I noun abomination, abuse, act of ferocity, atrocious crime, atrocitas, barbarity, deed of savagery, ferity, ferocity, fiendishness, flagitious villainy, flagitiousness, flagrancy, gross offense, heinousness, holocaust, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, malevolence, maltreatment, mercilessness, monstrosity, nefariousness, nefas, res atrox, ruthlessness, savagery, truculence, victimization, villainy, wantonly wicked conduct, wickedness foreign phrases:

- Patria potestas in pietate debet, non in atrocitate, consistere. — Paternal power should consist of affection not of atrocity

II index abuse (physical misuse), cruelty, delinquency (misconduct), misdeed, vice, wrong