Definitions for atrocity

atrocity a·troc·i·ty

Spelling: [uh-tros-i-tee]
IPA: /əˈtrɒs ɪ ti/

Atrocity is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in atrocity (aciortty).

Definitions for atrocity

noun

  1. the quality or state of being atrocious.
  2. an atrocious act, thing, or circumstance.

Origin of atrocity

1525-35; Latin atrōcitās, equivalent to atrōci- (stem of atrōx) fierce + -tās -ty2

Examples for atrocity

The folly of such a government corrects and tempers its atrocity.

Whittam told the jury that any attempts to justify the atrocity were irrelevant.

And then I thought how wicked I might have been,—a monster of crime and atrocity.

Doctor Crosson mopped his brow at the atrocity of his thoughts this morning.

Fueled by atrocity and a blitzkrieg of gains in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has enjoyed a meteoric climb to notoriety.

In this other video, 29-year-old Crawford is not committing an atrocity such as might be expected of ISIS.

But thankfully, spurred in large part by social media, the world is finally addressing this atrocity.

Suffice it to say, eight years after the Halimi atrocity, the case still inflames opinion.

The enemy, he said, meant by this atrocity to frighten our sailors away from the sea.

It was not content with atrocity, it must needs add cynicism.

Word Value for atrocity
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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